We ate the hotel buffet breakfast this morning (which was good but as I was warned... expensive). Bagley was panicked about getting in line for the last show so he headed out at 10:30AM to get in line. I headed out to the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan. It was only two quick subway trips away and I had time to kill.
It was actually a very nice aquarium, situated right on the bay, and featured the aquatic life of the Pacific Rim.
It started at the top with the Japan Forest where the Asian Small Clawed Otters unfortunately were all huddled together asleep. The large sea otters from the Aleutian Islands were floating around in plain sight though.
The environments were much nicer than the cheesy ones in Shinagawa. This was a real aquarium. The central tank that represented the Pacific Ocean wasn't quite as big as the one in the Georgia Aquarium, but they did have a whale shark and an enormous manta ray that was almost as big as the whale shark.
After the aquarium, I checked out a few shops and tried to watch a street performer who kept indicating he was going to juggle swords, but ended up taking too long telling jokes and making animal balloons to keep me hanging around long enough to see it. I went over to the Suntory Museum and checked out their design exhibit with furniture from around the world. I ended up breezing through it in about 15 minutes because it wasn't as big as I thought. Unfortunately I had bought an IMAX ticket as well so I had to hang out and wait for almost an hour. I just stood outside on the dock for most of it. The movie was the Deep Sea 3-D film that Danny Elman scored so I was happy. The 3-D was great. The narration was in Japanese (because the English headphones they gave me didn't work... no Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet for me), but the visuals were the important part.
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