Category: Osaka

A fashionable and up and coming area of Osaka is Orange Street. This is located just north of Namba station, about 10 minutes walk from the Ocat Building on Yotsubashi Street (go past the octagonal FM Osaka building).

This area - …

Western style pubs do exist in Japan and they are staffed by a mix of Westerners, and Japanese who are used to foreigners and their strange ways.

In these pubs you can get real beer and pub grub from back …

Umeda is the business hub of Osaka. Consequently there are lots of Hi-rise office buildings stuffed full of salarymen and Office Ladies (thats office workers to you and me) grinding away all day everyday.

However the benefits of this are that …

The Osaka Subway is, of course, color coded but the city planners have installed a little joke within the colors.

For instance the main Mido Suji (red) and Tanimachi (purple) lines are colored so …