Shopping in Osaka 1

There are a ton of great places to shop in Osaka, so I thought I might share a few of my favorites. I've shopped for everything here in the course of three years. These range from electronics, to pottery, clothing, loli clothing, accesories, books, toys, Japanese crafts, and innumerable other things.

In the minami area there are a few regions that I enjoy. For a general glitz and glitter experience I like to walk down teh covered walk way that funs just parallel to MidosujiAvenue. Here you can see fashionable clothing stores and restaurants in adition to some of the more colorful stores. A few notable ones are the Sanrio store and the Disney store-both larger than life and busy beyond all belief when there is new merchandise to have. The 90 minute cake and pasta buffet is another one of my favorites- it's called Sweets Paradise and it's popular with the young locals. There is a good book store with a large English section that is called Athens. Three or four huge drug stores always have a price war going on so you can find good deals on anything from fine cosemtics to everyday laundry detergent.

I also like the network of covered walkways that works itself down through ebisubashi over towards den den town. In these areas you can find anything from crazy shoes, english pop music videos, kitchen and restaurant supplies include plastic models of food for display- if you can dream it then you can probably find it here. And at the end if you're still not sated there is the electronics area of den den town. I have bought a camera here, an electric Japanese dictionary, manga, and anime cells. The big electrics stores are always (again) engaged in price wars and closeout sales so it's likely you can get a discount or points towards other merchandise when you make a purchase. The smaller shops are good for hard to find computer components and specific camera lenses that the larger stores may not carry. Bargin shopping can take all day!