10/5 2016 Wednesday
Kris and I woke up a little after 6 and really took in the suroundings of our room. I was a bit surprised by the size. It was clean, but smaller than I was expecting. We got a room with 3 beds with barely any space between them...you could basically roll from one bed to the other. The space between the foot of the bed and the TV stand in front was also not very big, it was annoying having to cross over each other to get something. Still, I would stay at the Cross Hotel again someday...it was clean and the location was good. The shower area was big. It was a walk in shower with a tub on the side.
Kris and I walked to Lawsons, a convenience store near our hotel. Convenience stores were EVERYWHERE in Japan...Lawsons, Family Mart, and 7-Eleven were the 3 common ones. I bought a smoothie...something I have never seen in convenience stores at home.
Outside of our hotel.
It tasted like strawberry yogurt. It was really good!
Our first stop was Don Quijote in Dotonbori, the area our hotel was near. Don Quijote is a grocery/drug type store that we have at home in Hawaii but the one in Japan was way better. It was huge...7 floors! No room for any shopping carts though, the aisles were very narrow. I bought some Wasabi, Sweet Potato, and Sake flavored Kit Kats. Wasabi and Sweet Potato were really good but Sake was kind of gross. I thought it was because I am not really a drinker and that's why I didn't like the Sake. But I brought some back for people at home to try and even though they like to drink, even they thought it was gross.
This is the Glico sign in the Dotonbori area. For some reason, it's an iconic thing to take a picture with. Glico is the company that makes Pocky.
The sky was gray for most of the day and rained later in the evening.
Don Quijote. Outside of the store is a ferris wheel but it has not worked in years.
Looking at all the cool Kit Kat flavors we don't have at home.
I also bought Snyder's brand wasabi pretzels. Those were really good! I wish I had bought more of those. I guess I'll have to stick with the honey mustard flavor until I make it back to Japan.
I am hoping to go to Japan in 2020. I want to go to 
