Umeda Sky Building

This building is one of the skyscrapers in Osaka, it is two towers linked together at the top. There are tons of buildings all over Japan just like this but what makes it different is on the top of the building you can go out into the open and view the city at 173m above the city floor.

The other thing which makes this building unique is that the two towers are connected via escalators with nothing below them except the ground some 40 stories below.

You catch a glass lift up to about the 35th floor and then hop on an escalator in one tower and ride up to the top of the building on the other tower. Here you can access the sky walk which we did at 7pm at night and it was damn freezing. It it wasn't so cold we would have stayed out there for a lot longer as it was good viewing the city from that high.

We got out of there and headed back down the other escalators and back down the lift to the ground floor where there was some German festival on selling all kinds of Japanese German stuff. I bought some candy, it was about the only place we have found proper candy in Japan. They call cakes and biscuits confectionery over here so confectionery stores are just packed full of that. :(