Tag: ramen
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Osaka, Japan and the cult of the octopus dumpling.
Compared to the glittery metropolis of Tokyo or the ancient sublimity of Kyoto, it’s easy to forget the more grounded and working class city of Osaka. But that would be a mistake. The second largest metropolitan area in Japan at over 19 million, Osaka is bursting with welcoming personality and Osakans are well known…
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Robots, lasers, and noodles! Prowling Tokyo’s Shinjuku redlight district.
Shinjuku is a major metropolitan transit hub inside of Tokyo with over 3.64 million commuters per day at the Shinjuku station as well as the city’s predominant redlight district. The stacked fluorescent neon strata fantasy worlds of new Tokyo japanimae and the glittery underworld of the Yakuza often depicted in movies finds its inspiration…