Known as Japan’s street-food capital, this lively coastal city is also packed with neighbourhoods for vintage-shopping and bar-hopping. The vibrant streets of central Osaka around Dotonbori Canal are ...

Japan’s biggest island is home to so many of the country’s popular highlights that the classic tour has become known as Japan ...

Dotonbori is widely considered the center of Osaka’s street food culture. This video follows a walk through the district as vendors prepare some of the city’s most recognizable dishes. Crowded ...

As any local will tell you, Osaka is proudly different. Japan’s third biggest city has a reputation for being fun-loving and energetic, with a colourful dialect that distinguishes it from Tokyo and ...

There’s good reason this city is fast overtaking Tokyo as a food destination, as this traveller discovers on a tour of Osaka's tantalising tastes. Osaka, Japan’s third largest city, is renowned for ...

If you’re visiting Osaka, chances are you’ll find yourself in Dotonbori. And why wouldn’t you? It’s arguably the most famous district in the city, renowned worldwide as Osaka’s hub for nightlife and ...

Ask most people where they want to go in Japan, and they’ll likely reply without a moment’s hesitation – “Tokyo, duh.” Romantic Kyoto may come a close second, or tropical Okinawa, but the Japan bucket ...

Seek out the local versions of okonomiyaki, takoyaki, and more Japanese specialties in one of the country's culinary capitals. Tawny Clark is an award-winning travel journalist who's traveled to more ...