World Trade Center

Osaka's WTC is in the port area off of the wangan highway. It is some 60 story building with a Wooly Mammoth exhibit at the top. A real head of one on display for only 1200 yen. I passed on that and instead went to a toy show in one of the hall's in the adjacent trade show building. Afterwards I went outside and noticed that there was a cosplay event going on and everyone around was dressed up in anime get-ups. But pass that group and further down the boardwalk was an radio controlled car tournament underway. Each heat had about 12 cars in it with maybe 25 laps. It was pretty cooold to watch. I've never seen anything like it before. Occasionally a car would smack into the wall and bits of plastic would fly every where. One collision resulted with one of the RC cars flying over another and into a wall further up the track. With every crash would come a cheer from all the onlooking kids. Found a Subway on the way out and grabbed a sandwich for the drive home. I was pretty tired since having been up till 5am at a camping party in nearby Nakatsu. I think it might have been the first party Ive been to where everyone was Japanese which put my Japanese to the test. It was a pretty mixed group with people from the immediate area and with people from Osaka.