so we recently went to Osaka beat that
we live in Tokyo we found a few
differences between Tokyo and Osaka that
we wanted to kind of highlight in this
video here my head up in Osaka for a
while so it was like good to actually
feel the difference of Tokyo and Osaka
we will compare Tokyo and Osaka by these
eleven criteria and each of us will vote
on which we prefer so let's start so one
of the first things we did we went to
the food market right yeah - good on ya
supermarket she told me that it was
going to be more like easy so I was
expecting just like a fish market where
people just selling fish but what I soon
realized was when he got there people
not only selling like fish clams oysters
Ernie but there was also a Kobe beef
vegetables another thing is it was
actually under like one big covered area
so it wasn't like outside but one of the
cool things was each place was also
offering food that he can taste from the
store from their shop actually had
oysters right there in front that they
were selling but you can also buy them
and cook them up if it was say clams
shrimp or something or you can eat stuff
brah like the oysters or the Uni which
was really pretty cool it's really hard
to find those souls are like this walk
in I am ie and what kind of places in
Tokyo so your spawn and I wouldn't say
whiskey some of the vases so it's a
Michelin restaurant so it's supposed to
be super fresh and good quality yeah
like what moister was like what are you
in body like 2000 years 2007 babe right
it's good but it's not cheap we were
also there on the weekend so there was a
lot of tourists during that so yeah
summertime so luckily we went early in
the morning so it wasn't too bad like we
went first thing when it opened which
was I think even like 8:30 what a minute
opening oh yeah little strange is that
being is that it's a fish market it
doesn't open as early as
daisuki G even though they're selling to
no michelin stores and whatnot yeah
you would think they'd be up earlier
selling or maybe just the front part of
the stores I don't know it seemed like
it was opening around 8:00 because there
were still store is not set up yet
well ski G is a little bit different it
actually opens at like five or six in
the morning right thanks before okay for
even though it's predominantly a place
where people come to buy tuna and other
you know seafood goods they actually
have options
I didn't notice an option also a nice
yeah I noticed that also ski geez it's a
little busier like the workers are
really focused on getting the product
out to the different businesses and so
they're not really interested in
tourists or not focused on the tourists
coming yeah I even saw no photographs
everywhere in ski ji-ji-ji had a few
cool stalls but nowhere near the
mountains could have money well at least
it seemed that way since put among
stalls are all lined up in a row while
in ski jeez some are hidden in the back
alleys and harder to find
yeah like I spend it to give me many
times you can't really buy stuff but you
know things there for life pick this
package size it's like go kinda
expensive is a little bit different oh
one thing I liked about skeezy is that
they have this new looking building
where you can buy seafood meat and
vegetables you can take what you bought
on the first floor up to the third floor
and eat it on the deck wow it's like a
wide open space here there's like no one
here
we also have a food court so it's
perfect when it's too hot or too cold
outside so if I put up a T that means
Tokyo if we put I put up an O that means
Osaka so at the end of this we'll see
our scores how many points I gave to
Osaka how many points I get to Tokyo and
we're going to be rating the food
markets of Osaka and Tokyo code Amman
and ski G all right on three one I think
mainly for me it was just friendliness
of experience and it's Kunduz made more
floors porters and people visiting well
for me mostly food you could eat I want
to eat there you go almost akka wins
moving on let's talk about the street
food so thank you know Sakura they're a
lot and it's easy to find especially
takoyaki fans but it's hard fun in Tokyo
for some reason I disagree because I
think what you need to do in order to
find the street food is the thing is a
lot of locals don't eat street food so
you have to go to where tourists
congregate now we live in Tokyo so we
don't actually go to all these sectors
these spots because it just gets them
tattered and stuff so we don't see a lot
of street food what you'll find is I can
select parts of you know Shibuya right
by like McDonald's or there's extra
foods there's a lot there you have the
meat they have the skewers that they
sell me other than that I don't know how
to say it but like they made it for
tourists exactly just not fair or well I
know that's what I'm saying like but did
you go like if they make it exactly they
make it for tourists go so it gives
tourists like like that experience in
Osaka they have the street food places
in the main like city center because
after all that tourists go like I have a
lot of friends in Osaka and they grew up
if Street food it was go to those stands
for snack like to get some oh no Meah
key will share and I'm you know like
their culture but here is only for
tourists or like even though you know
children guys that are introduced to
tourists for a street food they're
actually like kudos get some ice cubes
something that like locals bring home
for
dinner don't eat it up straight like
that yeah so at the end of the day in
Tokyo I know that look down upon or
people just refer by eating in a
restaurant but just Street food isn't
very popular please but my feeling my
friends and I never want to have street
food yeah
oh no there's no like no 1s and all
depends on maybe just the culture the
thing is I wouldn't say it better I mean
the case think it's all the same really
I think it's a lot better you know how
God I mean like just take two on top
where you just Oh much better okay so
two wins the street food battle
wait hold on I forgot which hand alright
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yeah the reason why I chose moussaka is
because they're just more of it and
people eat it more frequently so I guess
I just have better food in the queue
really want to have Street food as the
tourists coming into Japan it's better
to go to Osaka oh yeah in Tokyo that's
my time I think a lot of tourists expect
street food when you come to Asian
country and here in Tokyo Osaka wins so
let's move on to theme parks your
favorite the disclosure here I don't
have never actually been to us J which
is Universal Studios Japan in Osaka but
I have been to Disneyland and Disney see
in Tokyo Michael's more familiar with
Osaka side of it but isn't it just
preference isn't it just you like
Universal Studios if you like the
villain is written chapter different
pieces if you have two days this and I
have to see in this van and like ease of
am you need one full day and usj you can
wore running one day and I've been there
twice both time didn't need a full day
it's actually really small if you go in
the morning you'll be down around 4 p.m.
or 5 e so my experience with Disney I've
been to Disney see a lot more because
it's more geared towards adults more
like couples kind of yeah yeah yeah
alright so moving on to the next pink Oh
a okay this is going to be very much
yeah all right so any time no much
meaning I like Harry Potter which one is
that
the winner theme parks is Tokyo for me
because I haven't been usj sorry I
thought you listen just because I don't
know anything about yes well I just love
to see very bias
don't go wins this one is interesting
because there's just like the landmark
towers here
kind of compare Tower Tokyo has
obviously Tokyo Tower
more recently they have Sky Tree I've
been to both Sky Tree and Tokyo Tower
and what I found in Tokyo Tower is very
plain there's not a lot to it aside I'm
just going all the way up and seeing the
city whereas Chi Chi is a little bit
newer and there's more shops more
restaurants more kind of like an
attraction atmosphere than it is at took
a tower I've actually run up to a kill
tower so Osaka has to think up the it
looks very similar to Tokyo Tower in the
sense of like the height and the size I
think it's a lot shorter and a little
older okay and it shops like Japanese
like oh what's cool feeling
yeah it's older so therefore probably
it's not as tall you know they don't
have the construction techniques to
build it as high so you'll probably get
a better view in Tokyo but one thing I
did notice about the think of goo was
just the surrounding area like the
street around it there are so many shops
so many places to eat it's funny there's
a lot of kushikatsu places around this
area I don't understand why nonetheless
people are still pretty friendly here
sushi got to discuss pitch got the first
Essex of Jesus
which skeptics fish you gotta try to say
that three times fast
Chris custom I think the atmosphere in
general is a lot better in Osaka so if
you had to visit one of the three so it
kind of sucks because you know Tokyo has
to thing in Florence and I thought it
has one so that should be deciding
factor for you I mean which one you like
three two one
more specifically tree Sky Tree yeah I
mean it's just the newer thing it's
pretty you can go all the way up you can
see everything if you really want to see
like all of Tokyo just going energy to
go win all right so the next thing we're
moving on to is stomach G which is
directly translated means downtown but
it's kind of more like old town because
downtown you know from a Western
perspective is like the new hip places
with like stomach see downtown actually
means like to hold it more historical
kind of town with only call the old
school buildings and whatnot
so both soccer and Tokyo have it's very
unique different towns and hosaka you
have shinsekai
Tokyo you have a croissant I think
Asakusa it's not the only one in Tokyo
it's also like to go through it it's the
whole area was your first impression
when you walked into streams ago I
actually felt like I just went into a
tourist trap I mean like it was fun Oh
colorful and like little cue statues
there were a lot of restaurants and
stuff but I don't feel like it was like
a historical like Old Town sacrifice
where you go there you actually see like
old buildings that's been there forever
and a lot of restaurants that in
business for like 30 40 100 years but I
didn't feel the traffic let's play more
like being part my nation today location
well I don't remember you remember the
boutique in ring yeah that's really Oh
mushroom guy so what what is that what
tension you I really don't know the
history but it's like a same part
character you feel like so many of them
right on composing here's one
you're like so once christop I got it
so I guess I agree with you in the sense
that I felt like it's more of a tourist
shop at a lot of restaurants geared
towards tourists yeah but in the same
respect when you go out to concern you
go on sino G you see all the stores and
those are just like tourist athletes in
ivory my god they both like wind hands
down on like tourist trap eNOS I think
once you kind of leave that area like
just go a few Street's down get on both
sides you kind of feel more like you're
in historical Japan when you're in
Asakusa than you are when you're
interested that guy yeah yeah Tokyo not
to say that you know I was just kind of
process way down there for a couple days
so I didn't get to see all of all those
okay I guess we actually went to there
because that's why we were interested to
go just kind of see this time achieve
but maybe there's other places that we
just missed but from my experience being
togethers like this a lot more yeah I've
seen two wins when you go to these
cities or you go to Tokyo and you go to
soccer where do you think like the
busiest places are cool in Tokyo
definitely here Cebu young right
and dr. Morris well don't do buddy a lot
of tourists there I almost felt pasa
phobic in that area I didn't like how
you just like my personality not to say
that she isn't like that it is like if
you go right right by the station it
gets you really really like super PAC
specially on the weekends so I've
learned to avoid that I guess I don't go
through that particular area during the
weekend you know like when you go to
these kind of liked forests but that
everybody goes to you click more like to
see yeah but I didn't think there were
that many things to see in total body I
don't know but she way I'm going to be
here every day so yeah yeah but I think
I did like about somebody is they had
that River area it just seemed like it
was more made for people just to hang
out you know when they're done shopping
or what I was I can just like chill and
have a like I could seat somewhere and
have a drink or whatever and there was
like restaurants lined up and it just
seemed more again tourist friendly and I
felt like there's put some thought into
making that more of a place for people
to like hang out have fun spend the day
as opposed to here in Tokyo there's not
a lot of places where you can just like
sit down for free and have a good time
you might even like go to the parks but
just like in a public city area it
seemed like Osaka actually thought about
that which is really nice your Dutch
that it was nice too
I'm just going to win this one like yeah
so the winner is ha ha I just thought
somebody took down that way yeah again
if you want to just like sit and chill
which is like I think that's what's
really important to me just to be able
to like hang out I would say it without
is the place to go but if you're more of
like hey let's go chops and why not I
think you might be in for a surprise if
you know you're in
this is a lot of like unique yeah really
cool trendy shops are here osaka winds
pull well speaking of trendy shops that
kind of brings us to our next one which
is people youthful trendy shopping in
osaka you have the alma mater area
whereas in tokyo you have the Harajuku
area now will reserve and of feeling
about my mother they both have different
kind of feeling in fashion like in
Harajuku it's more like Pele kind of
Rizzoli fashion in a member right more
like hip hop
did you feel that it's like it's very
where's baggy and like all the shops
there life really he falls not to say
that they don't have other fashion at
each location but predominantly what we
found was that yeah well again going
back to one of my things I hate is just
how busy things are how many but I was a
little bit more tame than I would say
how to do so how did you go is just I
like up K people nightmares but like you
walk down Casey Jodie and it just
completely packed from wall to wall
yeah in a memory one thing I liked about
was bad they had a little part inside of
area both some coca for anything
some companies triangle you're actually
a triangle they have to saying that like
they go shopping in a memoir and then I
get takoyaki and have a snack in the
park and then shop but it's like okay
what kids do in the area I think I saw
those control you actually have
somewhere to and now the takoyaki yeah
you figured as a tourist if I had to
experience one or the other right like
well which one would you go to
editorialize the Torres ready one two
three
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gogo wins so you know we went from youth
fashion now let's move over to a little
higher end fashion you know we have
Ginza here in Tokyo but also a multi
Sandow which is like kind of very
similar let's just stick for almost a
Sandow and yes but this is just like a
know wide open street which is very
similar to Osaka in so Shinsaibashi also
like wide streets and then on the sides
you had all of the major brands you had
Prada and filters bana
Burberry yeah so basically you had all
sorts of high-end brands including like
Sports friends apparently the city
itself is so narrow and I like the most
trendiest of Japan I think Main Street
is filled with high-end fashion stores
so I feel like I'm in fashion but in
Shinsaibashi I think there were more
like BAM in like business building okay
yeah they don't feel like I was actually
in the fashion street so now we're in
the Shinsaibashi
area it's very very similar to mother
Sandow in Tokyo like you can see behind
me there is Apple Store Tecna and right
next to it there's a Nike store you have
every right there you go boss next to it
it's like very very similar yeah but
almost sundel if you walk a little
further there's a lot there's several
tanks and I did feel like a multi Sandow
gets a lot busier than Sims I bless you
bureau ultimately hand out like it's
crazy it's crazy busy yeah I think this
is the field like the buildings are
newer
and there's a lot more thought put into
the design I think there's a lot of like
glass storefronts and I'm with the
Sandow and it's just like one one long
kind of strip and a tad bit cleaner I
don't know why well that were the queen
is it just you are India Japan is clean
oh yeah is different because you don't
see a lot of garbage in clean to compare
to me Mira Munoz across the Demetri
those garbage on the street knows no
garbage garbage business
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okay so in terms of tourists if you had
to visit one where would you visit and
go yeah for tourists
my personal feeling my close personal
feeling check out Monsanto just a better
experience yeah but one thing we
actually didn't check out meta which is
actually known for another like high-end
shopping area I think it is should be
equivalent to Ginza I don't know maybe
it's not going to be braver
don't go win if you want to check like
historical places one in Osaka
you have osaka-jo also known as Osaka
Castle and in Tokyo you have Tang
Kikuchi what is supposed to go Keo oh so
you have in Tokyo you have kokyo which
is also known as the Imperial Palace
granted there are a bit different cuz
once a castle in one's an imperial
palace where the imperial family
actually lived all that considered
they're both kind of like historical
landmark places that tourists visit when
you went to Osaka Castle what did you
the person audience when you went there
well I actually didn't know that it's a
big heart around
oh he didn't know that there was a lot
of food fans as you can see behind me
this place is where you can get food
snacks are okay I mean not as good as if
you were to go to the center of the city
but if you're hungry you can go here
saying exciting the right a little bit
I thought it was nice but what wasn't
nice was that instead of castle it was
murder Newseum right yeah it was kind of
disappointing I wanted to see more like
oh look at the room is so historical and
old you know I wanted to do that well at
least if you're going to the palace the
places yeah you they allow you to
actually go in it's very museum like as
well they'll show you how they I mean
it's basically the both museums in a
sense what's very similar is they both
have most said you know encircle the
grounds if you had intruders in the path
I wanted to attend the families then
they would be protected by a moat around
the mouth there's actually paths for the
runners it seemed like a known thing
where a lot of runners will just run
around and go palace enchanting floor
yeah yeah it is pretty nice though now
one thing that was nice about Osaka
Castle was you can go all the way to the
top yeah and you can get a pretty decent
view you get like a 360 panoramic view
if you just like walk around which is
pretty cool don't yeah I don't
like how they have net and it's gonna be
in a fictional show well you don't want
people jumping off well you don't need
the 100 it was only like this much this
is me if you surprised okay I don't want
people to die safety safety first and
the Imperial Palace it also has some
parks around the area all other grounds
it's kind of fenced off where you can't
actually like walk on the grass but
there are some areas where you can go
you can kind of see like the castle
right behind me and the bridge is pretty
cool too
look at that I'm also nice is like on
Sundays I think they closed down a part
of the street so that people can go
right by but I think both in any case if
you do visit them you're going to want
to try to see if you can get onto
early in the morning with osaka-jo you
can just like go there without a
reservation I would recommend showing up
early we went there right when it opened
at 9:00 and we got in pretty much right
away whereas when we were leaving
because see the line starts a fine line
so it's just something you might want to
consider too early in terms of fewer a
visitor either one which would you
prefer to see the Imperial Palace or
Osaka Castle I think it's just I chose
with God because osaka-jo is actually a
castle Imperial Palace between parallel
powers not really Castle I want to see
yeah I just the feel Palace is because
it's simple you don't have to like walk
up stairs or anything
I know I just I just think that
paralysis go where they look like castle
like a house I'm maxing out and either
tired
moving on for those tech heads you're
probably wondering what do you recommend
there is Akihabara in Tokyo and there's
Ben den town in Osaka both have all like
the big electronic stores that you find
the coconut go so that's not kind of
like a big thing but more so there is
like the smaller shops in electronic
shops and then there's like anime
characters and then there are tool shops
and stuff I've been off talking about a
million times I'm only been condemned in
town this one time that we're talking
about but it seemed like they were very
similar in terms of content other
stories like you can probably get either
or I'm making what is a lot bigger yeah
more variety yeah and also one thing to
note is honking average was recently
renovated like sections of it
yes but back on the other side of the
station there's a lot of moves like
buildings and stuff with like a big
electronic stores so I've been looking
for like a mix of the old and new then I
think I can have it as probably exists
so when you first walk out you like to
notice that budget handy Sega and then
you'll see a mother thank you result
without a grabby they're just like all
the electronics is ready but and please
let's go about so you're gonna have to
move a little bit further and she's
actual like anime like English are then
in town just walking through had a lot
of shops but didn't seem like there was
a lot of new construction new building
on bend in town didn't have a big
building it looks like a little like
shopping sheet yeah sure thing guy yeah
there's like maybe two spec Main Street
yeah you can go to if you want as a
tourist if you're going to try to visit
and you want to see the electronics
where's the best place to buy it
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one thing to note though is I think both
of them really consider towards coming
to this so a lot of them have like tax
free stuff so like whichever one you go
to you're going to be okay you know you
can buy a rice Clippers you can buy your
cameras you can buy whatever you want
and will be tax free in to your wins
plus thing is omiyage a which is one of
the things is like specialty desserts or
specialty foods in Tokyo the one of the
most famous one is Tokyo banana Soto
Code banana is a dessert that they put
in a little box here and it has
different flavors just like a cake chips
and banana and that's a different
flavors and then in Osaka
there is gogo Ichi I wouldn't say a
dessert but it's more of a food what
everybody gets for souvenir is to come
on four o'clock
it's the producing basically the frozen
one to a patient like where you can buy
it before you go home
what tourists do is go to content may
sort me north maybe Scott and so we're
going to try the go-go eg pod I enjoy
the real taste of good eating
that's really voices but I really do too
they actually have no other stuff like
through my office needs and I don't know
history of it but just really so one
thing what we found is if you're in
Osaka you can still get Tokyo banana
news stations or any like a yoga shop
but price five one is only sold in Osaka
if you go to Tokyo to go to coca they
don't sell it there so definitely
there's some limitation so I think the
winner is here but if you're not
interested and goes or dumplings or what
any of this stuff then definitely just
go to Tokyo because it has everything
else well in one more thing like if
you're coming from overseas I think it's
kind of hard to bring the fourth one
this is the sugar country where Sookie
banana using a box and you can just put
it in your suitcase for fun you can just
now
maybe you think equal voice in Osaka and
then buy silk and banana a day off or
and bring it back
individual Osaka wins so overall the
combined score for the both of us yeah
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