Children and Public Transport

We used the subway and trains to take the kids to Osaka yesterday. We spent five hours in a department store, having lunch, window shopping and checking out the Pokemon Center for my son. Then, we took my daughter to a Disney on Ice performance around 5:00 p.m. and had dinner at a Yaki-niku (Korean BBQ) restaurant afterward. We finished dinner around 9:30, and by then began the exhausting journey home: packing two sleeping children and the days baggage on a series of subways and trains before finally blowing $25 on a taxi to drop us off near our apartment. We begrudgingly hauled them up three flights of stairs and placed them soundly in their futons just after midnight. Well rested, they woke up at 5:30 this morning ready to play with their overpriced souvenir toys.