I headed from Hiroshima to Osaka on 4/16/08. Checked into my business hotel and walked around. The hotel was perfectly located on the edge of the Minami area (Shinsaibashi and Namba). There are tons of food vendors, restaurants, bars, shopping plazas, stores, video game arcades, pachinko parlors, etc. Its pretty crazy at night. I walked around this area and then went to the Umeda area- another similiar entertainment and business district that is huge and somewhat hard to navigate (the maps kind of suck here because some roads don't have names that can be written in English- or so the women at the info center told me). One of the famous foods here is Takoaki- which I mentioned in my last trip here. God I love these things!!! They are also ridiculously cheap and filling. Basically they are dough with octopus and cabbage and other stuff I think and they are cooked in this special thingy whose name I don't know- look at the picture. They put a sauce on them, mayo, and bonito flakes and you eat them with a toothpick- they are doughy on the inside....mmmmmmmm octopus doughy goodness.
On 4/17/08 I wandered around Osaka some more and got lost but really enjoyed it. I had more takoaki and some fantastic ramen. I was supposed to go to the baseball game but it was rained out which was really a bummer. So I did more walking around the city and ate some more tako-aki
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