While we only spent a short time in Osaka, Japan we still got to experience the nightlife and food. Osaka is where we met up with our tour group for our grand journey across Japan and China.
Osaka is actually Japan’s third-largest city, right behind Tokyo and Yokohama. It hosts over 19 million inhabitants. The city is known for its lively nightlife and fascinating street food.
Within these first few pictures you can see the Dotonbori River / Canal that runs through the city.
Here you can see street pictures from the downtown area in Dotonbori.
We ended up going to a nice little restaurant for some delicious Japanese food. What you see here is some tempura vegetables, sushi, and noodles with beef.
The cup of oil had a small candle under it, which we used to cook the noodles and beef.
Along the street we passed a tank with pufferfish ready to be eaten!
In recent years they have altered the genetics of the pufferfish to make them non-poisonous. Naturally pufferfish contain the lethal substance called tetrodotoxin. It is up to 1,200 times more poisonous than cyanide and there is no cure.
But people still eat the poisonous ones. You can tell the difference by the price tag. Non-poisonous pufferfish are relatively cheap, whereas the poisonous and "authentic" pufferfish are much more expensive.
Michelle and I recently took a month to travel across Japan and China. It was epic! Follow me @slickwilly and Michelle @curiouser for posts about our adventures!
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