Osaka: Where Tradition Meets Modernity | My journey to Japan

osaka Castle and dōtonbori are definitely amazing destinations to visit during japan travel, travel to japan and visit osaka castle park and dotonbori osaka. i visit osaka in this japan vlog 2023, come along with takoyaki boys to find things to do in osaka

My journey to Japan is a 3 week travel diary recorded by Calvin (Takoyaki Boy number 1), and I am here to take you along this personal journey where I start in Tokyo and end in Osaka. What crazy things will I encounter on the way? Follow along!

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Oh my God why is this video so long uh yeah well I already told a day into this vlogging thing that planning is not really my strong suit and considering I kind of want to make a cool finale like episode soon I had to cram this all together Enjoy rounding up my grand holiday trip I finally get to visit the third most populous city in all of Japan Osaka modern architecture meets bustling nightlife and Hardy Street food in this culturally filled City full of Adventure but unfortunately as I mentioned before this will be the final City I visit

During my stay in Japan and on top of that this was also my final Shin conent trip God I’ll miss you well you serve me well that was the final no Shin on S trip of this holiday and uh yeah well it was a really comfortable experience I uh loved every minute

It uh yeah and the green car was definitely worth it even though it was really really um busy like the trains were still kind of full but um yeah it’s just a all around great experience Hello friends um I just arrived in Osaka I just had the last

Shin consen trip uh of my holiday so um the over looming thought of the end of this holiday is slowly dooming uh and crawling upon me uh so yeah that’s great um but overall it’s nothing really special to show you I mean the TV turned on by itself as I

Walked in here so I guess that’s a thing I can honestly already tell that Osaka is going to be a great City I don’t know I just kind of had that gut feeling when I walked out of the um the station it just looked very impressive and just the

Overall Vibe uh you know when you walk in somewhere you get like that that vibe that feeling I don’t know it just clicked and uh we’ll see how it goes but of course the most important part the bathroom and guess what boys guess what oh my God bro guess what guess what it’s

The exact same yeah well you know what it um so probably the best thing about my hotel is it’s currently behind me here is that I literally go outside I walk 2 m and there’s a Starbucks like right there currently making my way to DOI or

The uh you know the Running Man sign the Glo man um so yeah I have to take a train there or a Subway and uh I’ll see you There Just another regular day in Osa until cra just another regular day in Osa until octopus just another regular day in AA until I was just looking at this thing right and it’s uh it’s a donkey and above that I was like oh there’s a ferris wheel and then you go

Further up and you’re like oh dear that is the ferris wheel oh my Lord oh God yeah but this this place is kind of kind of slightly insane honestly like the amount of people just the amount of shops everything’s just mad there he is it’s oh my god there are so many

Tourists here doing the post Fore I don’t know who to ask I don’t know how To so I found a little spot for myself um and well let just say uh Doon B has been kind of crazy uh I’m not going to lie uh there’s a lot of people here but it also feels like there’s not too many people like I drown

In a sea of people but I also don’t you know what I’m saying like this place is so ginormous that there’s plenty of space for everybody and um yeah there’s only a couple places that the main like crowd really goes to um and I feel that I’m kind of

Outside that right now just trying to find a place to eat really um but yeah it’s been it’s been absolutely nuts like this is so alien to me like I come from a small little village town in the Netherlands and then seeing 50,000 buildings with like neon

Billboards just erect in front of me it’s just absolutely insane but uh yeah I’m quite enjoying the scenery here it’s uh it’s really nice and um yeah let me find something to eat now I’m sorry what cosplay Lounge Tower party with cosplayers Caba and then to finish my first day in Osaka I ended up at a Korean barbecue place actually the first time having Korean barbecue and man was it absolutely amazing every garnish complimented the already tender meat so well and well I didn’t actually film an

Outro for this day so I was kind of sudden but hey let’s just jump straight into the next Spe what the hell is happening here it’s it’s just everybody they got everybody here well yes I am in fact now walking on Castle grounds um I thought you know I’m going to stay here these last couple days um might as well do something uh a little bit cultur really appropriate

Currently uh visiting the Osaka castle and I honestly have no idea what I’ll uh I’ll do after this um I just thought you know if there’s one thing that I still want to see from Osa before I leave it’s the castle and yeah there’s a really just really pretty nature around here

And there’s like huge walls water a lot of water big castle big castle H Yeah You Note to CR yep I’ll pass it on to him yeah honestly I’m not going to lie um whilst the view of Osaka Castle was really nice um and the figure Museum which was surprisingly there as well honestly I saw the line of tourists going in and I was looking at

The uh at the top of the tower because you could see a little bit uh inside yeah I just I just thought to myself like no not I’m not doing that like I’m not there were so many tourists in the line was so long I was just like you

Know what the view is really pretty I’m satisfied I was at OSA Castle I think the most interesting Parts about like Gardens like this and like castles is that you can look out here and you’ll be like oh nice it’s all very natury and then you go over there and it’s just

Like oh skyscrapers and then magically I have whisked myself away from Osaka castle and now find myself in the Pokémon Center bro the music they played here and like the amount of cool [ __ ] they had cost me all my energy to not go overboard with crazy Purchases Holy [ __ ] it’s a [ __ ] monster hunter great sword now that looks Sick this is not a sexual thing about power Right All Jackpot I don’t know bro that looked kind of sus for a Second ah and there we are again hello you’re a little bit okay yeah hi I just got home from a pretty exhausting day um I started off going to Osaka castle and uh there was probably not a whole lot of vlogging footage footage footage afterwards because um yeah I just I was just

Shopping um but I think I’m done shopping now like the shopping phase is like over because I actually bought so much [ __ ] um and I actually don’t know how I’m going to fit this all in my back bags so um I’m going to have to be

Creative I guess the haul of today yeah this was at um at Osaka Castle I completely forgot I bought this it was this is so funny bro this is so funny first of all we have um pretty normal looking t-shirt just a cool one I think the design is pretty cool

It’s dragons you know like it’s it’s just it’s sick but then oh bro like y’all are not ready even though I might not like it that much this would fit our Channel or my channel our Channel very well so I saw this t-shirt and I was like

Holy [ __ ] I need to buy this just so I can like represent takoyaki boys so now we have a shirt with takoyaki Japan on it and it’s just like it’s probably the best t-shirt that I bought oh now we’re going to get into the juicy stuff you know like the juicy the juicy

Goose y’all are not ready honestly okay listen I can explain okay naachi is just great I love made in Abyss I love naachi naachi is great naachi deserve better so uh yeah it basically says uh naah on the on the shirt because that’s what she says of

Course nah and then listen man this this store is such a gold mine for t-shirts and just like anime merch because there were some shows that I was like wait y’all sell this and um well yeah best girls coming home so now I have a figure of her and a

T-shirt so um I walked into a store and there were like a lot of glass cases with um with anime figures behind them um and the store is pretty empty uh not all the boxes were like filled with figures either uh but I was just looking around and I saw this particular figure

In a box that had a a little paper with uh not for sale so I was like am I going damn but I really want so I asked the store clerk like s then I showed him the box I was like uh B not for

Sale um and then he was like and then I was like damn and then the second store cler came uh to his colleague and they started whispering and then I I was playing like a bit of like a like a card you know like oh damn and

Then all of a sudden they they turned to me and they’re like uh which one uh which which one do you want so I was like H Co right like this one uh and then they said D you can take it if you want HTO like really um and sure and I

Paid for it and now I have this figure and um listen man listen canot focus on this listen I love naachi she is a great character and I just love made everything made in Abyss like and as soon as I saw this I was like [ __ ] it’s like only like €30 it’s

Not that much in my eyes for figure if if I have this kind of of like store in the Netherlands somewhere I would I my finances would like Drop and then I saw this one and I was like [ __ ] am I really going to do this because I already have

A different one of this collection and I was like you know what I might as well so if you uh remember I have the um the other character who I don’t even know the name of um yeah of also like relax time this like collection first of all she’s hot

Second of all it’s fiki and then if I don’t really watch Hol life but if there’s one character that I can consistently watch clips from and still laugh at to this to this day it’s probably fiki because she’s her character is just great you know

Y I hope you can see it because of the lighting but um they’re basically two dragon heads here and when I turn around there should be let me just there’s like a giant print of a dragon on the back and I hope you can see it Properly there we go but then I can be like you know what I’m not feeling very black today maybe I should rephrase that uh I’m not feeling like the color dark today so I just turned this [ __ ] into inside out like my future girlfriend I’m kidding I respect women I

Never talk to them so that’s basically respectful and then all of a sudden there’s Tigers bro this is such a sick jacket like come on and then when I turn around there’s a tiger and it’s just so it’s so sick like if I’m not feeling like you know

Actually I was born in the year of the dragon so you know it kind of fits but uh if I don’t feel like a dragon like dragging these nuts across your face then I can just do this and all of a sudden I’m feeling kind of tiger I just think this thing is

Absolutely sick I think I need to cut it out on the shopping now uh tomorrow is the final like full day that I’m here um and the day after that I’m going to have to oh it’s going to be a pain in the ass I’m going to have to check out and like

Get keep my luggage with me all day long till like 10:00 till I can like you know check my luggage in at the airport it’s going to be fun i’ I’ve been really enjoying Osa so far though like it’s been a it’s been an adventure it’s been a pleasure to

Walk around here um just looking at people you know like people watching is fun just walking into different stores like like today I wanted to buy those Pokemon cards like I only wanted to buy those at n like n’s a district and then I found like all these stores that sell

All the sold all these like nerds you know figures shirts and I was like oh my God I’m in heaven bro um so yeah good it’s only like 8:00 9:00 right now 9:00 so I’m still I think I’m still going to go for like an evening snack like maybe

A a beef bowl or something just so I can fill myself up a little bit and then uh just go to sleep again