Kuromon Market and Coffee in Namba

Kuromon Market

Our free day in Osaka started at Kuromon Market, the covered market in Nippombashi.

Yesterday the ramen shop guy said locals don’t bother with Kuromon Market. Breakfast was a crawl: skewers (¥1,830), oden (¥800) and a melon ice cream (¥795). ¥3,425 and we weren’t even full. Now we know why the locals stay away.

Yao Gallery

Then coffee at Yao Gallery, an antique shop with a café inside. I needed my coffee break.

Walking around

Then wandering, with selfies under the shop signs.

Past Takashimaya to Namba, where Minmin, now in her second trimester, needed a sit-down break in the square.

Next: the Animeal café, where the animals wander around you.