Our first full day in Osaka - we went to the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan.
From our apartment, it was only a 30-min subway ride. The kids were really excited to be on the subway. Wanted to look out of the window even when we were underground.
By the time we got to the Aquarium, it was almost lunch time (we started out late). So we decided to have lunch at Tempozan Harbor Village first. It has a nice food court, as well as numerous restaurants. We were really impressed that there were no cleaners around, but everybody just clean up after themselves, returning trays and disposing rubbish after they eat. What a good practice!
The kids had fun at these picture standees after lunch.
They were also drawn to to the Legoland Discovery Centre on the 2nd floor of the complex, and we promised that we'd go there after the Aquarium.
The Aquarium looked really impressive from outside. Huge complex with a great variety of marine life found in the Pacific Rim region.
The star of the Aquarium - the whale shark, which got Aaron really excited.
There was also a "discovery room" of sorts. But everything was in Japanese, so we couldn't understand anything, nor explain what we were seeing to the kids. What a shame.
After the Aquarium, we kept our promise to go to Legoland Discovery Centre. It was bigger than we thought, even had a laser battle ride which both kids and parents enjoyed. Aaron turned out to be a better shooter than Nadine!
Aaron was totally enthralled by the Miniland, where there was plenty of models of landmarks in Osaka.
Nadine was happy playing in the Lego Friends Olivia's House.
And she also had her first go at karaoke-ing with Daddy!
Aaron building his loooooooong train
And there was Mr Lego, walking around to greet the kids.
At Tempozan, there was a big nice ferris wheel. But it was a rainy and windy day, so hardly anyone went on the wheel. Neither did we. Quite disappointed, although we were unsure if the kids would enjoy a long ferris wheel ride.
By the time we were done at Legoland, it was dinner time. We had dinner at Tempozan's food court again before heading back for an early night, in preparation for Universal Studios the next day.
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