we're no sucka well for a couple hours
anyway I leave tonight but I want to do
something really osaka asked before
leaving so we're gonna start by grabbing
some food street food is the goal and
well don't um buddy is the place for
street food there's actually one very
specific street food that I've always
wanted to try so let's just let's go
this way
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also look at this know that that is a
deal right there
whoo yeah I'd be that surprised too and
there it is pasta and pizza I'm just
kidding I didn't come all the way up to
Osaka to grab pasta and pizza
you know what this looks like the place
right here what it's not making it like
a year ago it's not like there's any
shortage of places to eat but you know
when you have here just to give you an
idea of what it was it was like a
sandwich just filled with gilze here's a
picture I pulled off of Google so I
guess the mission now is to find gluten
while the Main Street was super crowded
the river seems like this this is my jam
be quiet less crowded as possible so
here we come
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I've been in Osaka actually for the last
three days reporting the 20th
anniversary concert of the Yoshida
brothers yeah I did shoot some of that
and some of the behind the scenes could
all be coming up as well
look how phasing routed and busy it is
up here versus down in the river look at
the crowds in this show ten guy this
just just nope no thank you I am happily
heading back down to the river so quiet
down here
Osaka cheese dogs which looks
suspiciously like Korean cheese dogs
okonomiyaki here I already had that
during this trip got some guys you're
doing some mochi skee-bowl suckers
reputation for friendly people holds up
nicely
you know what Here I am searching for
some kind of street food I think they
were actually selling for why don't I
just go grab food from them
and you can get done go anywhere but
it's really good when you know the mochi
is fresh
and I I am so far from home right now
came out here to grab that gratuitous
Osaka shot I think there's some weird
YouTube role that you're supposed to
start the video here but no I'm looking
at that shoten guy and they'll just
cannot leave in a hurry
before the day ends there's two more
things that I want to do here in Osaka
number two is go to the amid a sky
building and number one is really more
about how I get there I looked on the
map and it says that it would be about
3540 minutes to get there by train or an
hour by foot so we're gonna do a little
exploring of the city as we head there
because it wouldn't be my video if we
didn't explore the city by foot
this is neat
they say that blue light helps reduce
anxiety and makes people less impulsive
so if you've ever been on a Tokyo train
platform you'll notice that a lot of
platforms have a bright blue light
installed at the end albeit dark fact
those were installed to reduce instances
of people jumping in front of the trains
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and walking along the river for a while
now and I should probably actually hit
them the back street it's just such a
beautiful day it's hard not to walk
alongside the rivers it's nice it for
all the street food available other
restaurant spaces are not to be
overlooked look at this here this place
this is beautiful
this blood place has a nice little sofa
and seating area up here there's a
little patio space out here the menu is
not too expensive either cool all right
I would love how much you can find just
by stepping off the Main Street thing
going out of the main areas I'm 5 maybe
10 minutes away from that main shopping
here even that Street was a little too
made for me saw stepping into some of
the back street
the government trucks like music I
really like that
also unlike Tokyo pretty much every
backstreet I have gone down so far still
has like people everywhere I have yet to
find a quiet space it could just be the
area but there are people everywhere
also I love how bare-bones this parking
structure
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you gotta enjoy the simple things right
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this building here has these things
right here and someone once told me that
these originated in Kyoto to stop people
from standing under awnings in the rain
humans could be so kind to each other
sometimes
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it's still pretty fun that they didn't
have that kills us sandwich if there's
one thing that Japan lacks its products
consistency never fall in love with a
product in Japan chances are the next
time you go to get it it will not be
there this happened to me so many times
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yeah and I can finally see the
destination off there in the background
admittedly this has been a much longer
walk than I ever expected it to be
unlike Tokyo Osaka doesn't have all the
little hidden shrines and temples in the
back streets to find so it's pretty
pretty chill walk overall I needed a
coffee and desperately Family Mart has
the best coffee of all the convenience
stores this building is massive - and of
course the beautiful blue skies have
turned into overcast right before I get
up there I was kind of hoping to get you
the sunset but you've rolled with the
punches yet would you get the first time
I saw this building I was like oh I've
gotta check that out but then I realized
it was an old sucker and I was like what
I'm probably not going to host like
anytime soon but here we are so
let's head up how much would it suck if
we came this far and it was like closed
for the day like he'll website says it's
open but I don't always trust the
information I get online even the area
around the building is actually quite
nice with little gardens and ponds and
stuff like that to check out so I was in
the elevator with what I can only
describe as the two loudest people aid
in Japan so instead of that audio here's
some elevator music enjoy
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it's a coming out of the elevator I
thought that it was really cloudy and
like fogged out of it no it's it's the
coating they have on the windows it's
made to make it look like that
sneaky
the cool things that up until this point
it's completely free you don't need to
pay until you actually get up and go to
go into the observatory which means
pretty much anybody can take that
elevator or check out these escalators
bit of a rare escalator experience
indeed we take north ticket
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and it seems like at the back here they
have a nice little cafe in seating area
look at that river view
and embed these videos are nice and all
that but we still have to get up to the
top and see what it looks like up there
it is really nice up here you get a 360
degree view for the most part you can
even see down to the tkp building there
that has the highway running through it
we pass under there earlier
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yep that was definitely worth coming
back up for it is dark up here now does
these black lights that are kind of
illuminating sparkles on the ground but
other than that
it is also considerably more crowded
here at night during the daytime so take
that into consideration if you're
planning on coming out seriously there
there are a lot of people up here look
at that view though just something about
a river at night
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that's a really short day I think eight
hours might not be enough to fully enjoy
Osaka we are gonna have to come back
if there's one thing Osaka isn't quiet
in reality this this is very much what
the area looks like right here
thank you remember what I was going to
say Oh suck up people are clearly rebels
their trains back to Tokyo like every
six or seven minutes there are areas in
Tokyo that don't get that many trains
lots of construction in outside last
time I came out to Osaka was 15 years
ago and that was literally just to use
it as a base so I could go out and spend
some time in Kyoto so it's actually my
first time exploring Osaka I'm really
glad that we did this
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