Osaka castle

Without wasting anytime, after our trip to the bay, we immediately headed to tanimachi-4-chome.

On the way to osaka castle from the station we passed by the NHK building.

No idea what this is but it looks interesting....

Beautiful sakura....

Wish I could see this every day.

So picturesque

Look at how much area the castle covers!!!! And we both actually walked around the entire castle in 3 hours!!

Aoi sora

Nice cafe......

Everything looks so pretty...

Entrance to nishinomaru-koen which is once again free, thanks to our 2-day pass.

Pretty proud of this picture that I took because it looks good enough to be on a postcard! ahahaha.....

Ppl booking their spots for hanami!

Food stalls selling street food~

Everything is so clean even though there's so many people because they clean after themselves well. Something that we should learn from~

So romantic~ taking wedding pictures with sakura in the background! 

As much as I dislike toilets like these.......these were pretty acceptable because they were much cleaner that what I'm used to here.

Off we go towards the castle~

Met a bunch of really friendly ojiisan there.....who helped us snap this pic.

 

And told us to take picture here because this is one of the few big stones around the castle!

Whee~ finally~

The expo capsule~ learned about this in jap class! Truly happy to see it in person~

A nice ojiisan brought his cute little birds out to play~

No pictures inside the castle......where we climbed 5 stories up just to get this view! Entrance to castle was covered by the pass once again.

So happy when we finally reached the top because there were so many people inside~

After enjoying the view from above, we walked back out to look for food.

As the background is so beautiful, every picture that we took there looks amazing.

See the sakura petals floating on the clean water? Everything looks so serene there.

We must've gotten picture of the castle from all sides~ hahaha....

Yay~ finally reached the stalls!

After nyom-ing, it was time to move on to our next destination......Umeda, where we rode on the Hep 5 ferris wheel~

So pretty~ I seriously can't get enough of the castle during the sakura season~ 

It was a long and tiring walk around the castle, but it was worth it. The weather was perfect, sakura was in full bloom and it was our first time there.......not sure if I would still walk around the entire castle again though. hahahaha.....