Osaka Japan walk 🇯🇵 Minami, Dotonbori, Nanba [4K] 2020

Dotonbori is well known as famous tourist destination in Osaka and renowned for its gaudy neon lights, extravagant signage, and the enormous variety of restaurants and bars. Dotonbori is famous for its eye-catching signage and billboards with a giant pufferfish, an octopus, a clown, the Kani Douraku crab all vying creating an amusement park-like atmosphere. The most famous is that of the Glico running man above Ebisubashi Bridge.

Dotonbori’s Food Culture
Osaka’s obsession with food is expressed “Kuidaore”, which means ‘to eat one’s self into ruin’, or ‘to spend so much on food’ that you fall into financial ruin. You will instantly set off the hunger in you when you enter Dotonbori by the smell in the air that you encounter.

Hariju has been serving prime Japanese beef shabu shabu and sukiyaki since 1948, Zubora-ya is a pufferfish specialty restaurant, Kukuru is a takoyaki octopus dumpling shop, Kushikatsu Daruma has been serving deep fried kebabs of skewered meat fish and vegetables since 1929, Kani Douraku is a super popular crab restaurant. Kani Douraku is easily recognized by the giant moving crab on its shopfront.

Glico running man
An advertisement for Glico candy, the 20 meter tall and 10 meter wide sign shows a man running on a blue track with his arms raised in victory. The first Glico sign was installed here in 1935 and over the years it has become a much loved landmark of Osaka’s Minami area. It is an essential photo stop for tourists.