Osaka, my home for the last two years, is a city with two centres, North (Umeda) and South (Namba).
Both have buisness and entertainment areas but Dotombori located next to Namba is the area most Osaka residents and visitors would associate with eating, drinking and a night out on the town.
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Advantages: Great place to eat, drink and be merry. Disadvantages: Looks like another grim shopping centre.
Osaka, my home for the last two years, is a city with two centres, North (Umeda) and South (Namba).
Both have buisness and entertainment areas but Dotombori located next to Namba is the area most Osaka residents and visitors would associate with eating, drinking and a night out on the town.
If you just walked down the ugly streets past Starbucks and MacDonalds you might think this is just a filthy hole in a crazy Asian city; but you would be missing ... ...is not so much its architechture as its people. This is Japan at its least reserved and most welcoming.
The centre of the area is a bridge, Ebisubashi, over the Dotombori river, from which you can see a wall of neon, including the landmark "Glico Man" an advert for an Osaka candy company which shows a man running in front of Osaka castle. It used to be a tradition that when the local baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers, won a match their supporters ...
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