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Well, hello, hello. I am back home in Osaka Japan after a few days traveling

visiting Hong Kong. Had a nice trip in Hong Kong, but nice to be back. Nice to be back in Osaka.

It's funny after, after Hong Kong, Osaka feels like a very relaxed city.

Hong Kong is so crowded, so, so, so, crowded with people everywhere, everywhere.

It doesn't matter, I mean everywhere we went, every neighborhood crowded, full of people.

Whereas Osaka, Osaka has a couple places in the city that are quite crowded.

Umeida, which is kind of the Osaka station area certainly is quite crowded especially

certain times a day can be very crowded

shinsaibashi which is a covered outdoor I mean kind of walk or mall, and basically it's this long road that's covered, so if it rains, you can stay dry and then there's shops on both sides.

Tons of tourists go there so that's down in the southern part here down near Namba Station.

That can also be very crowded.

But it's just, you know, two areas. The there's just two areas. Most big cities have a couple areas

that are quite crowded but Hong Kong gets everywhere. It's the entire city feels jam-packed crowded so there's no escape from it.

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