Osaka: Osaka Castle and Korea Town
We arrive at Hotel Chuo, in Osaka, Japan! (No, it’s not the camera angle --
the door to our room really is shorter than Sean!)
From Osakakoen-jo Station. . .to one of the park entrances:
After sleeping for about twelve hours, we got up and headed out to see Osaka
ちょっと。。。
Castle, one of Japan’s most famous castles . It was built in the end of the 16th century by warlord Hideyoshi Toyotomi, who won his fame by helping to unite all of Japan under his rule. The Toyotomi rule (passed onto his son, Hideyori after Hideyoshi passed in 1598), was brought down in the Summer Siege of 1615 by Shogunate Ieyasu Tokugawa, whose family went on to rule Japan for the next two and a half centuries.
October 17, 2008
The park around the castle
A guardhouse overlooking the moat
One big rock makes up this part of the wall outside the castle
OSAKA CASTLE
Osaka has the largest Korea Town in Japan, which is where we ended our first day. . .
