Week 11: Osaka Revisited. Told you there’d be more

We return to Osaka this week and spent our time having fun and making a brief visit to Kyoto.

Preparing for our next stop – while we have been in Osaka we have been gearing up, and decluttering!, for our next adventure. Going through the papers for our month long tour of Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia we see that we need to get our bags on a strict diet, plus we will be going from 12 degrees to 41 degrees.

We left a large bag of ‘stuff’ in Tokyo for us to deal with before we leave Japan but why tote things to Tokyo if we can leave them, or post from home Osaka. We buy some light clothes and pack all the winter/spring things we have been wearing – posting some 9kg back to the UK. This is just round one and we will have to do more serious pruning in Tokyo. When we get to Tokyo it’s more major weeding on the baggage front. Our cases weighed 21-23kg each on the way out, and we have bought a few things to cope with the climate of NZ South Island and Japan. Our bags need to be more like 15kg each. After a number of rounds we are there – we sent back 9kg from Osaka and now 11.5kg from Tokyo – we haven’t bought that much stuff, honest!

Out to celebrate our last Tokyo night we go to our favourite place in Ueno before heading to bed. We are fully mentally prepared for the next part of our adventure. All packed and ready to go. We have really loved everything about Japan; but bring on the next adventure.  

Tomorrow we head for Bangkok for a month of Indochina so not sure when the next update might be – keep watching.