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This is Osaka Jo Cohen, a park in the heart of Osaka, near Osaka Castle and Osaka Jo Hall. More videos will be coming.
I must say I had some pretty low expectations out of the places I was going to be staying at. Considering the price per night (average of around $30 a night), I was expecting to find dead hookers underneath the mattress or something similar to that. Out of the 4 places I must say Yougendo Inn was by far the best place I’ve ever spend a night at in any of my vacations.
Aizuya Inn (the first and last place we slept at) was fair, they were small rooms with a shared bathroom per floor. There was 3 coin showers (100 yen for I belive 10 mins)in the lower floor. If you traveled as I did where you only spent time at your room to sleep then this place is great because you can just take the Hibiya line to Ueno, or the Jōban Line to the Nippori JR Loop to get nearly anywhere in Tokyo. I must say the people in the neighborhood are friendly, and will recognize you if you after a day or two.
J-Hoppers Osaka and Kyoto is more of a true backpackers hostel as most of the rooms in those places are dorms. In Osaka we stayed in one of their dorms, which really wasn’t bad because the people in the shared room really minded their own business and nothing else. The J-hoppers in Kyoto being a bit of an older facility wasn’t as great but then again I just didn’t have much of a great time in Kyoto. Possibly due to fatigue.
All in all the places were great especially Yougendo. All 4 of these places were near a metro. I would just suggest trying to book ahead to get yourself a private room.
Coming from Tokyo where you can easily get around to almost any corner of the city via metro to Palmdale really blows. I already miss Japan, its food, and its great night life.
Unfortunately our stay in Kyoto in my opinion sucked. We took the metro to the manga museum only to find out it was closed, from there we walked for nearly an hour -_-. Finally moving out onto the Kyoto Imperial Palace, only to find out that the gardens and the outer area is open to the public. Moving from the palace we took the metro back to the main kyoto station and just walked around a bit, and visited a fairly large buddhist temple around there. Our second day there was mainly our laundry day so not much walking or running around. The only upside to it is visiting a manga shop where I bought a few books (which unfortunately got wet because on the way back home I put my wet towel over them -_-), and a magazine. We left Kyoto early to catch the shinkansen back to Tokyo seeing that there was far more things of interest to see there.
I must advise that if you plan to travel to Japan, and plan to go city hopping as I did make sure you purchase a J-Rail Pass, as it will save you tons of money.