Today we went to Nishinomiya, which is one stop further from Umeda than Mukonoso. Lucas said it was pretty cool looking when he drove through yesterday, which corroborated the South African guy’s story, so we went over. There wasn’t much to see on the side of the station we came out on, but we stopped by a Mos Burger (Japanese burger chain) and got lunch. The Mos Burger I got was pretty good. It was a little bigger than a standard McDonald’s cheeseburger and had tomatoes and some sauce with onions in it. It also came with fries, which were dipped in Gum Syrup instead of ketchup. Danny and Lucas have been singing the praises of gum syrup the whole time, but I wasn’t overly impressed. It was good, yeah, but pretty runny. For sweet fry dipping sauce, honey is where it’s at!
After Mos Burger, we wandered around and went into the shopping mall that is adjacent to the train station. We went through one half, which had a bunch of clothing stores, office supply, a ¥100 store (misc. dollar-store stuff), a furnishing and bedroom floor that also had suitcases and bags, a lot of restaurants, and another massive bookstore (comparable to the one at Umeda) We spent a lot of time at the bookstore and got some ice cream at Baskin Robins before heading over to the other side of the mall briefly and then coming back to the apartment to drop off stuff and find a place to go in Osaka for dinner.
I also saw this sign at a parking lot. If warning signs were like this everywhere, people would probably pay more attention:
I agree — what a great sign!