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Chapter 148: First Arrival in Kansai

After breakfast the next day, Father Sun said very seriously: "Our vacation plan this time far exceeded our expectations, so we must reduce some of the follow-up itinerary. First, discuss with your mother. It was completely cancelled. After all, if you want to shop, Mingzhu City and Beidao City are good choices. There is no need to go to Jeju Island. Secondly, our journey in Kanto, Japan will also be reduced. For example, we will not go around Nagoya No, we won't go to Mount Fuji either.

There are about three days and two nights left. The arrangement is roughly as follows: After we arrive in Osaka today, we will take a day off first.If any of you want to buy souvenirs, then buy them today, and tomorrow my mother will help you find a courier company to deliver them back to your country.Or you can choose to pick up the goods directly at the airport and pack them up and check them back home.Tomorrow we go to Universal Studios, that's also a one-day trip.

The day after tomorrow we have an afternoon flight, so in the morning you can take the Osaka Loop Line to visit Osaka, or take the Midosuji Line to Shinsaibashi.It seems to be a shopping paradise there, so if you have spare time, you can go shopping.But you must go back to the hotel to gather at noon. After lunch, everyone will go to the airport to take a flight back home. "Although Father Sun cut off the follow-up itinerary and lost part of the expenses because of this, the vacation time this time is indeed too long. Zhou Haoxin has urged Sun Ping to return to China as soon as possible in emails more than once, because their idol in the workplace The first series of the drama "Rushing to the Sky" is about to be finalized, and there are many details that Sun Ping needs to come back to confirm. At the same time, "Mother Tongue" magazine also expressed that several literary and art magazines want to interview Sun Ping, and they need Sun Ping Make time for the interview as soon as possible.

The most important thing is Father Sun's publishing group. After all, the new semester is coming soon, and Father Sun needs to confirm the publishing plan for the new year.Now Papa Sun has a faint tendency to be the leader in the field of teaching supplementary materials publishing, but at the same time, major publishing groups have also begun to get involved in the publishing of teaching supplementary materials, so Papa Sun is still under great pressure.

After breakfast, everyone gathered the souvenirs and other gifts they bought and handed them to Aunt Guo.Aunt Guo has already contacted the service staff of the hotel to find an international courier company to come and prepare to receive the goods.Although the price of the international express company is not cheap, Dad Sun bought some porcelain and handicrafts that are fragile. If you always carry them with you, not only is it inconvenient to travel, but also there is a risk of damage.At the same time, Sun Ping and Guo Yi also bought some snacks, which need to be transported at low temperature, so everyone thought it better to find an international express company.

So here, Aunt Guo is instructing the staff of the international express company to pack them by category, while on the other side, Father Sun is instructing the three children to pack their luggage.Fortunately, after expressing all the souvenirs and gifts back, there were only three children's backpacks and two tow boxes, and Aunt Guo's tote bag.Compared with most international tourists, the equipment of the Sun family is relatively small.

This time I went to Osaka to choose the Tokaido Shinkansen.In fact, if Sun Ping arranged the itinerary alone, he would get off at Nagoya and Kyoto on the way, to experience the customs of the local cities.It's a pity that because he was traveling with his family, Sun Ping had no choice but to type on the keyboard quietly on the train.The novel Sun Ping chose this time is Yasunari Kawabata's Nobel Prize-winning classic "Snow Country" on the earth plane.

In "Snow Country", Kawabata Yasunari showed us a poetic Japan, a beautiful world imagined by the writer.In fact, as an aestheticist writer, Kawabata Yasunari's sexuality has always been a mystery.It's just that Sun Ping has read Kawabata Yasunari's diary and early essays, so as many people think, he knows that Kawabata Yasunari had a same-sex lover in middle school, who was also his junior.Although the two may not have too much intimate behavior, in Kawabata Yasunari's mind, the importance of this person is very high.Even he will be jealous because his junior is too close to other men, and he will be happy for several days because he lies on the same lap with his junior.

It's just that like all campus romances, they went their separate ways because of graduation.When Kawabata Yasunari found his apprentice again, he was already a practicing monk.After Kawabata Yasunari and him lingered in the temple for several days, Kawabata Yasunari found sadly that his former lover and himself had gone farther and farther, so Kawabata Yasunari left the temple with sadness and loss.Just as this relationship is too deep for Kawabata Yasunari, it will cause the love in Kawabata Yasunari's works to be beautiful but with a touch of sadness in the future.

After arriving at the Shinkansen station, everyone discovered that the Shinkansen is divided into three speed levels.The Echo is the slowest and stops at almost all stations; the Light is the second fastest and only stops at large stations; the Nozomi is the fastest and only stops at very large stations.For example, from Tokyo to Osaka, the ticket price of the Echo and the Hikari is similar, but the journey time of the Echo takes four hours, while the Hikari takes only three and a half hours.What embarrassed Father Sun the most was that the most expensive No. Hope was only less than 1000 yen more expensive, but the time was shortened to less than three hours.

Papa Sun had no choice but to say, "Ah, since we don't have time to go to those cities to see the sights, it would be nice to have a glimpse on the train."

Compared with Japanese subways and trains, the internal facilities of the Shinkansen are naturally the best.You must know that the interior conditions of many train carriages in Japan look similar to those in Aurora 20 years ago, but whether it is subways, trains or Shinkansen, the clean environment and details are still very good.And the Sun family booked a designated seat in the green car this time, so there was a lot of extra fees added to the ticket.Therefore, Sun Ping has to admire the Japanese's ability to make money. They have various methods to add other additional fees to the originally low ticket price.

For example, ordinary carriages are equivalent to second-class carriages of domestic high-speed rail, while green carriages are equivalent to first-class carriages.In addition, the Shinkansen on the Kanto side also has the so-called special class, which is basically equivalent to the business class of domestic bullet trains.Naturally, the fares for ordinary and green cars are different.In addition, the Shinkansen has a distinction between reserved seats and unreserved seats.If you do not purchase a reserved seat ticket, the Shinkansen does not guarantee that you will have a seat.In the non-reserved seat car, whoever comes first chooses, and if the subsequent passengers are full, you can also stand.Although reserved seats are not more expensive than unreserved seats, they need to be reserved in advance, and the reservation fee needs to be paid extra.

The hotel we stayed at this time was Cross Hotel Osaka, which is located near Dotonbori.Because there is a saying in Japan that Kanto loves to wear, and Kansai loves to eat.Therefore, Kansai is the center of food in Japan, especially in Osaka.The birthplace of Osaka’s food is Hozenji Temple near Dotonbori, so Dad Sun specially booked this hotel.It's a pity that this hotel doesn't have a family suite, so Dad Sun had to book a double room and a standard double room.

After a four-hour drive from Tokyo to Osaka, everyone finally arrived at the hotel before two o'clock in the afternoon.After putting down the luggage, Father Sun took everyone straight to the nearby Kani Doraku.You know, Kani Doraku is one of the most famous restaurants in Osaka and even in Japan, and is famous for its special crab meat dishes.

In fact, Father Sun took Sun Ping and others to eat the kind of crab dishes that require eight pieces of crabs in China, but Kani Doraku's crab dishes are even more amazing.If it is said that domestic crab dishes focus on the original taste, then Kani Doraku pursues the extreme and refined crab meat as a cooking material.The crab meat of Kani Doraku is made of Hokkaido crabs, so it has a natural sweetness.Whether it is steamed crab, crab siu mai, or grilled crab legs, the natural sweetness of Hokkaido crab has not been concealed.

The most famous one is Kani Doraku's Crab Meat Stewed Rice. When everyone is eating, the crab meat stewed rice is slowly cooked on the side.When everyone is half full, the waiter will serve the stewed rice, and then everyone will pick out their own crab meat and put it in the stewed rice.Then the waiter will pour the broth for everyone, and the waiter will also serve plums and other side dishes.A meal costs only 4200 yen per person, and there is a [-]% discount for Sun Tao’s children.

After lunch, everyone returned to the hotel for a rest.But Sun Ping and Guo Yi were discussing other issues there. Guo Yi took out a map and said, "I think it's a pity not to go to Kyoto after I've come to Osaka. I calculated the time and finished going to Universal Studios tomorrow." After the city, if we can get up early the day after tomorrow, we can take the early bus to Kyoto. If we take the Nozomi, it only takes half an hour to get to Kyoto. It only takes more than an hour for us to visit the Kinkakuji Temple. You can come back for lunch. Anyway, whether you go or not, I must go. Do you have to go to Jiashiyuan?"

Sun Ping originally planned to go to Jiaziyuan, but found that there was not enough time. "If you go to Kyoto the day after tomorrow, how about going to Koshien with me in the afternoon? Koshien takes the Hanshin Line, which takes more than half an hour."

In the end, the two reached a compromise, Guo Yi accompanied Sun Ping to Jiaziyuan this afternoon, and Sun Ping accompanied Guo Yi to Kyoto the morning after tomorrow.After the two made a decision, they greeted Father Sun and rushed to the subway line, then transferred to Osaka Station, and departed from Osaka Station to Koshien.Sun Ping went to Jiaziyuan just to fulfill his desire to parallel time and space, otherwise it would really not be a good time to go to Jiaziyuan at this time.

Especially when it arrived, Guo Yi complained that he just came to see what is so good about a building.Because it was not when the game was in progress, Koshien was completely closed, and even many souvenir shops were not open.However, Sun Ping still bought a few baseball uniforms as a souvenir of his visit.After the two returned to Osaka from Koshien trembling, the two ate a few takoyaki at a nearby food stall before taking the subway back to the hotel.

After arriving at the hotel, he saw Dad Sun and Aunt Guo dressed neatly, and Sun Tao swore there: "We are going to eat the snack street tonight!"

Hozenji Street is a well-known food street in Osaka and even in Japan. Not only are there many restaurants, izakayas, but also countless snack shops waiting for you to discover.Even if everyone eats and walks all the way, the delicacy all over the street still makes everyone lose their battles.Even Sun Tao, who yelled the loudest at the beginning, no longer said he wanted to eat this or that. He was looking worried at the mixed vegetable pancakes and red bean glutinous rice balls in his hand.

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