Ultimate Osaka Travel & Food Tour | Wagyu to Whisky & Expo 2025 Highlights

Ultimate Osaka Travel & Food Tour | Wagyu to Whisky & Expo 2025 Highlights

Hello everyone and welcome back. Well, we’ve boarded our Trans-Pacific cruise as you hopefully saw in our last video. And as we mentioned, we stopped in Shamzu, which is the gateway to Mount Fuji. And our second stop, which we only have two stops, is Osaka, Japan. And that’s what we’re going to show you today because Osaka was way too fantastic, too awesome, too delicious to actually try to include in just that Trans-Pacific video. So, we’re dedicating a video to show you and share with you what an amazing city Osaka is. So, on our Trans-Pacific cruise, we’re really fortunate that we actually have an overnight in Osaka. And we really have two full days. The ship isn’t leaving at like 2:00 in the afternoon or something the second day, which quite often happens on an overnight. It’s staying all the way till the late afternoon. So, the first day we’re going to tour some of the sites of Osaka that we didn’t get to see on the Ultimate World Cruise. And we’re also going to do some of the tastes of Osaka that we didn’t get to because frankly, we ate too much and we’re too full. And we’re also going to revisit at least one of our very favorite places, but we’ve also found some really new delicacies to show you. And after that, we’re going to go to one of the top 10 meals we’ve ever had in our life. It was just absolutely fantastic. We’re going to share that with you. And then on day two, we get up bright and early and head to the Asaka World Expo. Welcome to Living Phase 2. [Music] Hi, I’m Mike. And I’m Nancy. And we’re empty nesters striving to live life to the fullest. And today we’re living that full life touring the stomach of Japan. Osaka as well as the Osaka World Expo. We sure are, friends. Well, our ship has docked here at the port. This port is very it’s very clean and neat. It’s very easy to get around and it’s very close to public transportation. So, this this is a good port for us to stop at. But, we’ve got a couple goals today. We want to hit some of those spots that we missed when we were on the Ultimate World Cruise. When we were here before, we want to see some of the things that we missed then and try some of the food that we missed as well. That’s right. Now, when you get off the ship, there are arrows on the sidewalk that lots of signs that direct you to public transportation. As a reminder, we use the Pasmo card and this was the card that we used throughout Tokyo. and you can continue to use it here in Japan. Um, or you need to have the app on your phone, but we just use this card. And if you want to know more about the Pasmo card, go back and look at our Tokyo video where we go into it into more detail. But we took the train now to the Osaka Castle, which is the first thing we wanted to see today. Well, that’s right. The Osaka Castle is actually, I believe, the number one tourist destination in all of Japan. It’s just absolutely gorgeous. I can’t believe that it’s more popular in Mount Fuji, but you know, it is in a larger city, so it’s probably that um the Osaka Castle is truly what you would think of when you think if you say Japanese castle, this is what you would think it looks like. And it is gorgeous. It’s on 15 acres of ground and you could just wander through the grounds. There’s the moat and then of course the keep which is the center castle or the center building in the middle of the castle and all of it is just absolutely gorgeous. Now a little history here um because I just love that part of it being the geek I am. Uh, the Osaka Castle dates back to the 16th century and it has been the center of government for Japan actually for a long time, especially for this area of Japan as the center of government moved around. But this has always been the center of government for this area of Japan. And in fact, all the way up to World War II, it was a munitions storage area. And in World War II, it was 90% destroyed. And it was really in ruins for a long time. But in 1995 the uh the government private and government cooperation got together and they did a complete full modern restoration of the Asaka Castle leading to what we are seeing today. And it is absolutely gorgeous as you look at it. So this place really is a a don’t miss. We’ve got to say that. Now if you want to go up to the top of the keep, you can take an elevator or you can climb the stairs. Either way, there’s going to be an extra charge for that. So that’s something we didn’t do. We just wandered around the grounds. And that’s really what you need to do here at the Osaka Castle is just wander around because it’s beautiful. So, we’re working up an appetite here. And so, we’re going to head back to the train station and go to an area where there is plenty of food. But, as we walk back, there are a lot of stairs. You need to be prepared for that. Well, you’re right, Nancy. That was a good walk out to the train station on those stairs. and you did okay with your knees. But yeah, we made it back to the train station and then we took it to the Dontenbore area. This is the most famous area of Osaka for, you know, night life and restaurants and all that. But specifically, we took it to the Kuruman market area in there. And this area is full of restaurants and little market shops and fish mongers and you know, you can just get them to cut raw tuna and give it to you right on the street and those kind of things. It’s just a wonderful area. And we were looking for a place to have some sushi. We really wanted sushi and we’re wandering around. Our favorite place from the Ultimate World Cruise is no longer there, unfortunately. So, we’ve trying to find an alternative and we found this little place that had a little stand out in front of it and we looked in the back and it almost looked like they had a restaurant and the lady kind of motioned us in and we said, “We have six. Is there enough?” And she nodded and we go around her cart through a little door and sure enough there’s a sushi counter there with six seats. with six seats and the name of the place was Tuna Master. This was spectacular, phenomenal. I mean, it was so just amazing. We sat there. Um, we ordered off the menu. We actually had to use our Google Translate cuz it’s all in Japanese, which, you know, is fine. Of course, I had a sashimi salad and you had the tuna skewers. So that was um I think it was either five or six skewers of different like a fatty tuna and and you know all kinds of different tuna. But the real interesting part is I had one that was tuna cheeks and that one was tuna brain. Tuna brain. Now those two were actually cooked. The others were sashimi or they were raw tuna and so I’d never had tuna brain before. How’d you like it? You know, it was okay. Um, sometimes your mind gets in front of you, so it didn’t taste bad or anything. I didn’t really like the texture. It was kind of a little mushy. I certainly liked the raw tuna on the skewers much better. Um, but I can say I’ve had tuna brain now. So, but in addition to that, I did order a glass of saki, which was truly the best glass of saki I’ve ever had in my life. And she comes out and she actually puts it in a box and fills it with the little cup. The little cup in a box, right? And she fills it all the way up till the glass is overflowing into the box. And so it is right at the top. And yeah, it was it went so well with the tuna. It was just really, really good. And everyone that uh ate there, we all thought it was amazing. But even the better part was watching Tuna Master do his work. He was he was right there in front of us and so we could see everything he was doing and his knife skills were amazing with my sashimi salad. He had cut that tuna just razor just every thin and and every slice was just perfect and the cucumber that he cut everything was just it was perfect and beautiful. Yeah. It was like watching an artist in motion, right? Yeah. So that was, you know, it’s not just the food, but it’s also watching the skill and the love and the artistry that go into that food. And this place was really great. So if you’re in the uh in the Dantorei or in the sorry, the Kuraman Market area, uh yeah, don’t miss Tuna Master. Uh they are absolutely excellent. And if you don’t want to go in and sit down, they actually do have tuna um out in that little cart um as well. So you can pick it up there. So after our meal, we had to get the little fishshaped pastries that are filled with custard. We’d had these on the Ultimate World Cruise, and they were really good. Has a vanilla custard. You can get it with chocolate custard, but I got the vanilla. So good. It really is the texture, the custard. They they cook them warm right on like a waffle grill kind of thing. And yeah, I really like those. Well, now we’re going to go to a place that was actually closed the day we were in Osaka on the Ultimate World Cruise. Horai 551. And this is one of the most famous steamed bun places in the entire world. They have a cult following and and you just Yeah. And and after trying them, I can see why. So, we headed over to 551 and the line is just down the street, right? So, the they have a counter that’s on a corner and you know, the line’s snaking through everything. But don’t let that deter you. The line actually moves very fast. They are super efficient at getting people through. Well, unless Americans get up there and try to translate the menu. But most people know exactly what they want. They tell them and boom, the buns come out. And you can watch them actually making the buns and steaming them fresh right through the windows as you’re in line. So, we got a selection of six pork buns. We got a couple of bean paste buns. We got their joysa, which I always mispronounce that. It’s the how I was taught to say it, but other people pronounce it differently. And uh and we also got a um kind of a a crab um or fish um ball that we had. So we tried these different things. We went with all our friends and we kind of got went by the river there and the those steamed pork buns were just divine. Little touch of mustard on them or a little bit of fish sauce and yeah, they were really really good. The goa top notch. I mean some of the best I’d ever had. Uh the bean paste buns. Uh we actually got those for Leslie at Point My Stole North and but they were more savory than the sweet bean paste. Uh those were really excellent. And then our friend Amy had the uh fish balls and you know and she said those were good as well. So everything at 551 is worth the wait. And I tell you six steamed pork buns, if you got those between a couple people, you would be more than full getting them. And it’s super affordable. I think all of that that I just mentioned came to a total of like $15 or $20. I mean, it was not much at all. So, you know, very affordable and superfood at 551. Be sure to give that a try in Osaka. It’s a don’t miss. Now, our next place that we went to, once again, we had while we were on the Ultimate World Cruise, and it’s called Ice Dog. It was that good that we had to come back here again and we had to walk like threequarters of a mile to get it was that good. They take a hot dog bun and they kind of flash fry it and so that now the bun itself is very hot and they put in a cold ice cream into that fried hot dog bun. It’s so good. We had vanilla ice cream. They also offer a matcha green tea flavored ice cream in it. But uh so yummy. The hot, the cold, the the sweetness, the crispy of the bun in contrast with the soft serve ice cream. It’s just delicious all around. It really is. How are these not in the United States? So ice dog is another one. Put that on your list. It It’s absolutely excellent. And you know, it’s unusual, but it’s really good as a dessert. While we were on our way to Ice Dog, we ran into a couple of different I guess bands is what you would call it. But it’s really interesting. You’re you’re walking along the streets and a wall of the building. Like if if this was a building behind us, the wall just raises up and the band is behind the wall and they’re singing and kind of dancing and yeah, it’s really sweet. It draws quite a lot of attention. [Music] And that happened twice on the way. One of them was on a second story. One was across a canal. Yeah. We we stopped and Yeah. watched these girls sing and then the wall closes up and they’re behind the wall. Well, we’ve eaten enough for lunch. More than enough. And And it sounds like we probably ate a ton. Actually, most of these meals, like the tuna skewers and all that, you know, we had like one steam bun. and we shared the others. So, we’ve we’ve tried to contain ourselves a little even though we went to a few places, but really we’re going to head back to the ship for a few minutes, put our feet up and rest because we are going to go back out tonight and see Osaka at night. So, we went ahead and headed back to the ship. We got on the train. Now, here’s a little public service announcement or maybe pro tip or whatever you want to say. Uh the people in Japan are silent on the trains. So, we always say be respectful of the culture that you’re experiencing and visiting. Uh, so in in Japan, people get on the train, they sit down, they basically just look at their cell phone and they look down and that’s it. If they want to say something, they quietly whisper to each other and then that, you know, and that’s about it. So, we as Americans, you know, we get on the train, we just talk, we have conversation, we talk to people, you know, not overly loud, but certainly the train is loud, so, you know, your voice ends up raising a little bit. And we just want to remind people that in Japan though, you don’t talk on the train. And if you do, you talk very, very quietly. So, you know, that way you’ll fit in a little bit. Otherwise, you might get a little bit of a little bit of side eye, you know, as your people are looking at you like, why are you being so loud? Well, we made it back to the ship, put our feet up for a few minutes, and just kind of rested and then we headed back out to meet our friends Roy and Leslie. Our goal is to have an absolutely fantastic Wagu steak dinner. Yes. And as we’re looking for our Wagu beef, we’re we’re looking at Google reviews. We’re wandering down the back streets and and all around trying to find a good place. And we finally settled on one called Mat I got to look this up here. Matsasaku Yakanukiu. Hope we’re saying that right. We’ll put it. You can see the picture on the screen here. Yeah. Yeah. So, but Oh, so good. one of the best restaurants we have ever had in our lives. So, yakaniku, again, I hope we’re saying that right, is a style of Japanese cooking where you have a grill on the middle of the table and you grill your own meats and vegetables and fish and all this and you sit around it and it’s just it’s a it’s a communal event and it’s a ton of fun. And so we went into the place. They took us up a couple flights of stairs. They even had a private room for us that we went back all set around this table. The the waiter came in, spoke absolutely perfect English. He did. And he, you know, he said, “Well, do you want me to cook for you or would you like to cook yourselves?” I’m like, “Well, why don’t you show us what’s going on here?” And so he taught us how to cook the meat and, you know, he told us what each of the cuts of meat were. And oh, it was so good. and just the company and talking while you’re cooking and eating and it was an amazing experience. It was delicious. It was It really was. That experience and the food and the taste and the service has really led this to be I would say one of our top 10 restaurants we’ve ever eaten at in the world. So, uh we’ll put a link at least we’ll put the name in the description so you can follow up. If I can find a link to the restaurant because it was a little out of the way place. Um you know, we’ll put that in as well. But uh yeah, we would certainly recommend for a wonderful dining experience uh to give that a try. Our next goal is to get some Japanese whiskey. Now, we had walked by this Japanese whiskey place earlier in the day, but it was closed. And so now it happens to be open. We decide to go we go up the stairs and go in. There’s only eight seats there. There’s only four seats available and there’s only four of us. So, it worked out really well. But oh my goodness was this fella knowledgeable on not just Japanese whiskey but all whisies. You you are quite fascinated being being an executive bourbon steward. You were quite fascinated with his wealth of knowledge. Yeah. So I don’t know a lot about Japanese whiskey and that’s one of the reasons we went. I wanted to learn right. we wanted to try how does it vary from scotch or from American whiskey or and you know we got to getting into it and I started we got on the subject of course of bourbon and he knew about little tiny distilleries in Kentucky that that I don’t know how he’s never been to the US I don’t know how he knows these particular bourbon brands and he knew them and he’s tried them so I I was highly impressed but he had this entire wall of whisies and he just kept pouring sample after sample and lining the bottles up for us because what we told him when we went in, we said, “We are in your hands. We want to learn about Japanese whiskey, all the different types, you know, what makes a good Japanese whiskey, what makes variations of Japanese whiskey.” And he just was amazing. I mean, he really was. And some of those samples were really quite good. In fact, you would ask, you asked him several times, “This is good. Where can I get a bottle of this?” And his response was, “You can’t.” Yeah. I know. It was so frustrating. Yeah, it was some limited edition bottle that he had purchased like four years ago and he’s like, “Yeah, they don’t make this anymore. They only made one run of this one.” And I was joking with him and I said, “Why are you giving this to us? You’re just teasing us.” You know, and you know, but a couple of them he was like, “Well, you might be able to get this bottle at this shop.” And but really it was a great educational experience in Japanese whiskey. And you know, it just a lot of fun. It just really was really wonderful. But that said, we’ve got our stomachs full. We’ve had whiskey. We’ve had Wagu beef. We need to head back to the ship and get some rest because tomorrow we got to get up really early and we need to head to the Asaka World Expo. Well, let me tell you just a little bit about what a world expo is. A world expo is where countries from around the world they all gathered together in one central location Osaka and they have built each country h basically has its own pavilion or its own space in this world expo and in their pavilion or in their space they have different displays set up. They may have interactive type displays. They may have movies for you to watch that that depict their country in the light of the overall theme. And I hope that makes a lot of sense to everybody. Uh they usually they offer food. They may have a few uh trinkets or things for sale that are are native to that specific country. Um, but yeah, it’s a it’s a neat experience to just kind of you just kind of get a little taste of the world, but but they have expose every few years. So, yeah. So, this will kind of give you an idea of what a world expo is like. Well, let’s talk about our day in um specifically. We rode the train, as we said, early in the morning. We did leave early to go to the expo, but once we got to the site, they’ve actually built a specific train station just for the expo. There were already thousands and thousands of people in line in front of us. So, we got in the queue, worked our snaked our way through. They had, you know, really what took a lot of time was they had pretty tight security and scanning things and all this. And it was actually interesting. They even had like hand scanners for water bottles. They could put a scanner on it and tell that it was water. So, I thought that was pretty interesting. But, we got into the expos and just began wandering around. And to me, that’s what an expo is about. It’s really seeing the pavilions and seeing this. If you’ve ever been to Epcot, of course, Epcot, the theory when they developed it, it was a permanent World’s Fair. And so that is kind of like what we’re talking about here. Um, you know, the certainly the attractions inside the pavilions at Epcot are much better than what you’re going to get at any world’s real world expo, but they are really, you know, pretty good. And in fact, if you think back, the original Disneyland attractions, Walt Disney and his and Walt Disney Imagineering, they actually built all those rides for a World’s Fair. And then Walt repurposed them all and put them all into Disneyland, like you know, Moments with Abe Lincoln and all the Carousel of Progress, It’s a Small World. Those were all built for World’s Fairs. So now, this one didn’t have attractions like that, so to speak. For us, the attractions were really the buildings, as Nancy said. they spend so much effort and architectural, you know, wild thoughts and what they’re doing for each of these buildings. And each building is supposed to represent the land and culture of that country. So, yeah, it it was really amazing. And in fact, when you walk into the expo, like one of the first buildings, we just kind of walked through and they had these big steel cables and if you pluck the cables, they actually played music, you know. So, that’s kind of interactive thing that you’ll see. [Music] But what you really can’t miss at this specific expo was what they called the Grand Ring. In fact, the Grand Ring holds the Guinness World Book of Records uh for being the largest wooden structure and it’s over a mile long and the Grand Ring goes around the Full World Expo. It’s quite tall. I’m not sure how tall it is, but if I remember right, it’s five stories. Yeah. Yeah. It’s It’s quite tall, but you can go up to the top and then you can walk around the Grand Ring. So, you can walk all the way around. Even even in the up at the Grand Ring, they had plants. They had gardens up there. So, it is a spectacle in and of itself, but when you get up to the top as you walk around, then you can look down upon the expo and you could see the different pavilions from the height. you could kind of go to the location that you wanted and there were there were stairs and elevators uh throughout the Grand Ring all the way around. So when you got to an area that you wanted to visit, then you could go back down from the Grand Ring into the area. Yeah, it it it is stunning. It’s just beautiful woodwork. Yeah, it is almost worth going to the expo just to see the Grand Ring. Well, we uh walked the Grand Ring. I think we walked about halfway around, dropped down out of the Grand Ring, and we went to the Thailand exhibit. We were with some friends that actually just spent some time in Thailand, so they thought it’d be interesting to see their pavilion. And they had a film we watched, and in the back, they actually had a Thai restaurant, so you could get Thai food if you wanted. Uh, after that, we headed over to the German pavilion because we used to live there. And we could not resist getting some real German food. They had Hoffroy beer. Uh we’ve got we got some um uh actually libeesa. Our friends got some broughtwurst and we had a beer and just enjoyed that. The waitress spoke German so we got to practice our German. Terrible German. Yeah, that was really good. And uh one thing to note though, the food at the World Expo was and actually most souvenirs things like were kind of outrageously priced. Yeah, in comparison to other places in Japan, we thought Japan overall was reasonably priced, but here it was quite high. Yeah, it was very expensive, especially if you’re in the pavilions getting some traditional food from those countries. Uh it was it was quite pricey. So, just be aware for that. Well, after we left the German pavilion, went to the Saudi Arabia pavilion, which was one of the highly rated ones. And here’s where you need to know that they have standby lines and they have reservation lines. So, you can make reservations for certain pavilions before you go. So, you you buy your tickets before you go online. You have to get reservations for pavilions before. And I’ll be honest with you, it’s kind of a whole convoluted process. It is not easy on their app, but stick with it. You’ll figure it out. But we were still able to get in the Saudi Arabian pavilion through the standby line. It was interesting, but it did blow me away. You know, we went to several different rooms and it just seemed like there were a lot of movies and films. Um, you know, the design of the pavilion was very, I guess, desert-like and I mean, it would show it was kind of whites and desert and showed Saudi structure, but um, that one didn’t really blow me away. Um, you know, after that we wandered and just looked at all the different pavilions. Um, we the line for the United States uh, pavilion was so long. Oh, it was packed. Yeah. Italy was also an incred like I think it said the standby line was a three-hour wait is what I read on the sign. Yeah. Well, and then later in the afternoon um the standby line they just closed it because it was all just reservations. One of the reasons the Italian pavilion was so crowded is it actually inside it contained the Vatican pavilion and a lot of people were trying to go see that as well. But yeah, the buildings are just amazing. The null building N U L was all chrome and it had kind of a a a foil outside that vibrated and it looked like it was all speakers and you know and and again we couldn’t go in because you had to have reservations but you could hear music and you could see the wall kind of pulsing. Yeah. Yeah. They had a fountain display kind of like the Bellagio in Las Vegas with music and musical fountains and we sat and watched that for a while. And in fact, as we were walking over there, sure enough, we saw the Angola pavilion. Well, we had such a good time in Angola. Not that we had to give it another try. Go back and see our Angola video. Um, yeah, we wanted to go and see what they had to offer, but the pavilion was closed. Yeah. They they weren’t ready for the world expo. They they didn’t have the Angola video. So, you know, we’re triangle. We really wanted to to showcase you this time. But, uh, well, and speaking of some of the African countries, so, as Nancy mentioned earlier, some of the smaller countries really couldn’t afford, you know, building an entire pavilion like this. So, they were housed inside common buildings like building A, B, C, and they would put like all the African smaller countries in one building. And so, we went and walked through that. It was super interesting. In fact, Somalia had some amazing gelato. We got that and it was really good. Well, we continued just walking around, but it it’s seriously getting to be almost elbow to elbow people. It I There’s so many people in one place. It was crazy. Even as as we had decided to walk out, there was a gift shop there and there was a queue just to get in the gift shop. It would have taken over an hour just to get in the gift shop because I thought, “Oh, this might be kind of a, you know, we could get a patch here. We could get some of the things that maybe, you know, we we’d want as a souvenir, but no, it just wasn’t happening.” Yeah. So, we went ahead and, you know, we called it a day at the expo and uh and went ahead and headed back to the train station and headed back to the port near Osaka. So, uh I I mean, overall, I had a good time at the expo. I’m glad that we had an extra day. I think it’s a good thing that that we did our second day. I would agree with you. It was very crowded and the fact that the online reservation system to me was very convoluted. It was difficult to get reservations. But even our friends like Leslie who got a reservation at the Canadian pavilion, she even came out and went, you know, she was like it was okay. you know, but on the outside, the Canadian pavilion had a band playing and they had a Royal Canadian Mountain Police kind of giving talks and so I think almost the fun stuff was on the outside. That’s how I kind of felt. So, yeah. So, if you have an opportunity to go to a world expo or even you’re watching this and you’re going to go to the uh you know there’s still time to go to the Osaka World Expo, we don’t want to discourage anybody from going. They’re a wonderful thing to go experience. just prepare yourself for a lot of walking. I think we did 22,000 steps that day and you know and crowds and especially you know it was warm that day. I wouldn’t say it was blazing hot, but it was certainly, you know, it’s Japan in late May or I I would say worth going, you know, and if there’s another World Expo we’re near, may go to that again. You know, we enjoyed them, but overall, just be prepared when you go, right? Well, so we walked back to the train station and took the train back to the station near the cruise port and we’re walking back to the cruiseport. Well, we saw a fun little like a shooting gallery. I I kided Mike. I said you you should try your hand at this. Yep. Well, being American, I Well, I mean, I grew up My father was in law enforcement. I mean, I grew up shooting. And so I thought, okay, well, let me see how this is. And they were little cork air guns is what they were. And they had all these prizes all lined up. And so I thought, okay, I’ll give my hand at it. And did you get it? Yeah. Good job. Y good job, Mike. I think I won six prizes. Just candy. So, it was like just candy lined up and you you’d shoot the candy or different things off the wall and Well, we kept one. Yeah, I kept this one. This is a hundred billion yen. It’s actually a cracker inside here. wafer and uh the other uh candies and stuff that I won. Uh we actually walked out of the shooting gallery. I had this big pile in my hand and there was a family um on the corner there. They had a stroller and a couple boys that were probably four or five years old and I walked up to them and I said, “Here, why don’t you guys just have this?” And they looked at me like, “Stranger giving us candy.” And I looked at the parents and said, “He’s so shady looking.” I know. And I said, “I just won this at the, you know, it’s candy and you can have it.” and they look down at their boys and they go, “It’s okay.” And they were like, “Oh, Candy, you made their day.” Yeah. So, that was a lot of fun. But no, it it’s um Yeah, it was interesting just walking along. There’s a shooting gallery right there on the street, you know, and so that that was Well, we headed back to the ship, got aboard. Uh, and so we’re preparing to go ahead and leave for our Trans-Pacific cruise as we mentioned in our last video, but uh, we it’s not exactly smooth sailing as we’re trying to get out of Port Naka. It’s not. So, you’re going to have to go back and watch that video as our our Trans-Pacific cruise and see the things that we encountered. Yeah, absolutely. Because it took us a long time to get out of Osaka, and you’ll have to go back and watch that video to see why. And for those of you who have already watched it, thank you very much because I’m sure they did. What? You turned on those notifications so you knew we had a video out. No, friends. I I I kind of jokingly say that, but but thank you. I we really do appreciate it when you turn on those notifications, when you hit that like button, when you subscribe. Uh it lets YouTube put our videos out to others who don’t know us. Yes. And so yet, so it means the world to us. Thank you very much. Yeah. And if you’ve liked this video, reach down. It takes 1 second to hit the subscribe button. Doesn’t cost you anything. Doesn’t give you spam in your email or anything. And we’re trying to reach that 100,000 subscriber uh target. So, please help us uh get that. And we thank you for those that are already subscribed. Well, thank you a lot for touring Osaka with us. The taste, the sights, the sounds, everything. Uh we’ve enjoyed uh having you along with us, and we will see you again on our next adventure. Have a beautiful day. Take care, friends. Byebye. Bye-bye. [Music] Yeah, this place was really, really great. And I had a sash sashimi salad. Say that three times fast. A sashimi salad. Sashimi salad. And you had a Okay. What are we doing? Okay.

Join us as we dive into the heart of Osaka—Japan’s vibrant city of culture, flavor, and futuristic innovation. From historic landmarks to unforgettable bites, this video is your ultimate guide to experiencing Osaka like a local.
🏯 Must-See Osaka Attractions:
• Osaka Castle – A stunning symbol of Japan’s feudal history.
• Dotonbori – Neon lights, canal views, and endless street food.
• World Expo 2025 – A visit to the future of global innovation.
🍣 Best Food in Osaka:
• Tuna Master – Watch a master carve and serve premium tuna and saki.
• Fish Custard Pastry – A sweet and savory street snack you won’t forget.
• 551 Horai – Famous pork buns with a cult following.
• Ice Dog – A quirky cold-meets-hot dessert experience.
• Matsusakagyu Yakiniku – Premium wagyu beef grilled to perfection.
• Japanese Whisky Tasting – Smooth, complex, and distinctly Osaka.
📍 Whether you’re planning your trip or just love Japanese culture, this video is packed with insider tips, local gems, and food that’ll make your mouth water.
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