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Hanshin Department Store Umeda and Umeda Twin Tower South, Osaka. Took me 15 minutes to find this spot again on the map though they both are huge buildings.
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Here is just a staircase at Umeda, I think it was in the Hankyu Department store, connecting with the subway, we didn't choose very carefully, just saw it and started shooting sor a while!
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Umeda, Osaka
お互いに素知らぬ姿。当然と言えば当然ですが皆それぞれの世界で生きているのを感じました。それを画題にしたかったのですが主題を変えて単純にReflectionと言う事にになってしまいました。Each world? Different world? どうもしっくりきません。
We went up to the roof of Umeda Sky Building to see the cityscape of Osaka. Though the building is only 40 stories high, we could still get a pretty good view of the surroundings. I 've been to Osaka for three times within a span of twenty years. I don't think it has changed much.
Osaka, Japan
By the time we reached Osaka in the late afternoon via our fourth Shinkansen journey, we were both beginning to feel a bit "citied out" and the thought of site seeing in Japan's second biggest city seemed somewhat tiring. But we may never have the opportunity to revisit Japan again and so after finding the hotel, which was conveniently situated over the subway line although it took over half an hour to find it, we reviewed our itinerary and headed for the hotel bar and restaurant and an early night.
The following morning we were both up with the larks and out of the hotel and heading for yet another new subway network. First tick on the list was the Umeda Sky building - a very quirky design skyscraper that is the 19th tallest building in Osaka at 173m (568 ft), but doesn't even make the top 50 in Japan, but that's not the main reason for visiting. I'd read about it before going to Japan and was surprised that Mrs R had included it in our itinerary for I know she would be freaked out by its "interesting" features.
The building consists of two 40-story towers that connect at their two uppermost stories, with a glass bridge midway and a pair of escalators that cross the void from the 35th floor of the west tower up to the 39th floor of the east tower. Now as much as I like my architecture this building simple tries too hard for the wow factor. The escalators were the most memorable part of the visit as the observation deck and rooftop circuit can't hold a light to the Orizuru Tower in Hiroshima in my opinion. In my posting you can see the external glass elevator between the white and red sculptures and the two escalators at the top. If you don't like heights, then this might be one to give a miss as Mrs R would have done in hindsight. You'll see what I mean in the next upload...