A high of 16°C. Breezy in the morning, but the sun started peeking through at…

A high of 16°C. Breezy in the morning, but the sun started peeking through at lunch time, and it became increasingly sunny mid-afternoon. Last time we were in Osaka was in 2018, on your first trip to Japan. We didn't like it much back then, but we were only here for a day trip, not knowing where to go. This time, we spend the first few nights in the city, giving it another chance, but also use it as a stopover between arriving in Tokyo and heading further south to Kyushu. In hindsight, even a three hour train ride after a 13-hour flight with less sleep than ideal was a bit too much though. While yesterday, thanks to my errands, we ended up in a few busy parts of the city, the kind of parts we usually avoid during our travels. So today, V found a cafe called Nova 珈琲と焼菓子 (coffee and baked goods), in a recent edition of Brutus, a Japanese pop culture magazine, dedicated to the cafe culture of Japan. They only listed two locations in Osaka, so we went to one of them today. It was situated…

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