Made it to Osaka!

Wow.  It's hard to believe that the guided tour portion of my trip is over.  From here on out, I get to make my way around mostly by myself.  Well, that along with a couple day-long tours in Osaka and Tokyo by personal tour guides and drivers.

However, the good news for now is that I've made it to Osaka.  I had a bit of fun at the station in Kyoto trying to make sure I was actually on the right train to Osaka.  I apparently misunderstood when the lady was telling me the third floor, I thought she meant Gate 3.  Thankfully I noticed that Osaka wasn't anywhere on the line map for Gate 3, so I found another information desk and got it straightened out.

Surprisingly, even the local train service got me to Osaka from Kyoto in about 40 minutes.

Now I get to go find some food, and figure out where I'm going to explore this evening.  It's only about 3:30pm here, so I have some time.  I saw that it might rain tomorrow, so maybe I'll hit the Umeda (spelling?) Sky Building Today to get some pictures while it's nice.

And I'm so behind on my posts that it's not even funny.  Maybe I'll have some time once I get back from exploring.  In the mean time, tomorrow is my tour of Osaka!