Osaka

Osaka has 5 neighbourhoods and 121 places. This is a city you eat standing up in, takoyaki and okonomiyaki around Namba and Dotonbori, with Hozenji Yokocho a stone lane of tiny places behind a moss-covered Fudo statue. Shinsaibashi has the most on 28, then Namba on 27 and Hozenji on 26.

Start here

Busiest neighborhoods first.

28 places

Shinsaibashi

Shinsaibashi is the covered shopping arcade plus America-mura, the clothes-and-oddities block to the west.

27 places

Namba

Namba is the working centre of Minami, and it eats well without trying.

26 places

Hozenji

Hozenji Yokocho is a narrow lane of taverns a minute from the Dotonbori crush, and it is the calmer way to eat the same city.

Everything else

1 guides

Dotonbori

the Glico sign, crab on the canal and takoyaki at every turn

1 guides

Umeda

sky-high views, a station built upwards and food under the tracks

A neighborhood shows up here once we hold enough places in one category to make a guide out of it. Osaka has 5 of them today.