Woke up to another cold overcast day.  Bought our Friday morning donuts, got our tickets to get back to Narita airport on Sunday and caught a train to Osaka which is just 30 minutes away.  When we got to Osaka we walked over to the Shin Umeda building to see the Floating Garden Restaurant which is suspended 39-40 floors above ground between two building towers.  We got there by taking an outside elevator to the 36th floor and a glass enclosed escalator up the next three floors.  Jerry doesn’t like heights and hated being in both of them.  Then up two more floors to the open roof.  Great views but freezing cold wind.  We are holding the Pleasanton Weekly because they like to publish pictures of it taken in strange locations.  Down to the coffee shop to warmup before taking the Osaka loop train to the Osaka Castle Park.  The Osaka Castle is a rebuilt version of the wooden castle built by Hideyoshi Toyotomi in 1583 complete with walls and moats.  The castle was destroyed in 1615 and rebuilt by shogun Tokugawa in 1629.  The original castle had several towers, numerous buildings, a double moat and more land.  What you see today is the North and largest tower rebuilt in 1931 as a steel and concrete structure and extensively renovated in 1997 to make it visitor friendly.  Today the tower is a museum about Hideyoshi Toyotomi and the history of the castle over the past 400 years.  The museum has some great automated displays with holographic figures that depict major events in Toyotomi’s life.  The remaining land is a park with spaces for events like garden shows and a sports arena.  After a couple of hours at the museum we took a train back to Kyoto and the hotel.