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I’m going to use a quote from the email that Mingaling sent me for this one. Thanks Mingaling! My comments are in bold<\/strong> and I spaced it out a bit for easier reading. <\/p>\n

Mon, 12\/09\/2011
\nWe went to Takashimaya for the first time, (at Namba Station\/Namba Park area)<\/strong>had a look at all the food in the basement level. I bought those bunny shaped rice crackers. <\/p>\n

We went to 3 Coins store (315 yen store) and small Muji. <\/p>\n

We looked for that takoyaki restaurant but couldn’t find it and ended up having okonomiyaki instead. We had mochi and ice cream at that dessert place in the station. <\/p>\n

I found that shop I loved where I got the cool put-together-like-lego plastic rings. We walked down Shinsaibashi again (we were looking for the Ghibli store I think? Yeah, I think so too. It was meant to be on the Namba Walk<\/strong>), I bought lots of stuff at the Urban Research store – we each got one of those bracelets that spells out the name of a flower. Actually I bought a ring that said Daisy for Cammy’s birthday present. A very cool store.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We had frozen yoghurt with all our fav toppings from Partyland for the first time – your one weighed a fair bit \ud83d\ude42 Delicious!<\/strong>. We went back to the station and found that takoyaki place we were looking for at dinnertime and had some for dinner – takoyaki were much bigger than in NZ!<\/p>\n

On the way back we came across that odd frog (was it?I think so.<\/strong>) shrine round the back of the stores in the station and we made a donation. Was it on this day that we started wondering where in the world the Namba walk was? I think we wondered were it was everyday! If I had only re-checked the guidebook and realized it was Underground, not undercover.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mingaling forgot that this was the day I bought some Sylvanian Families. I didn’t get many, but sooooo cutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m going to use a quote from the email that Mingaling sent me for this one. Thanks Mingaling! My comments are in bold and I spaced it out a bit for easier reading. 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