Osaka Night View / Abu Travel Handbook
This brings us to the decoding of the tourism geography of the sixth season of "Lonely Foodie", in the past year, Abu Travel Notes decoded the first five seasons, counted, and has written nearly 50 articles, and has not yet been written. It seems that the reason why this drama can catch fire is inevitable, because the amount of information is large.
In this episode, Comrade Goro finally traveled to Osaka, which is familiar to quite a lot of Chinese tourists, and what appears in the lens, from the new world to Tsutenkaku, is also familiar with the street scene, as for the Osaka yaki and Osaka fried skewers eaten, it is also more in line with the taste of Chinese.
Instead of eating, our focus is still on the interpretation of the geography of tourism behind the scenes of the film. In this episode, don't watch Goro eat so happy, even we are a little hungry, but when it comes to Osaka accommodation that has a little connection with the series, if you are greedy and careless, it may not be so beautiful.
Osaka New World / Lonely 6 screenshots
Good at packaging Osaka
If I remember correctly, this is the first time that "Lonely Foodie" has been filmed in Osaka, so in this episode, you can feel that the screenwriter is desperately trying to stuff various Elements of Osaka culture.
Those iconic street scenes are not much to say, many people must be familiar with them, and what Abu Travel Notes noticed was the customer that Goro visited.
He is obviously a Hokkaido native, but when he arrived in Osaka, he did real estate business for a few years, and his tone of speech became very Osaka-style, not only his voice became louder, but his tone of speech also became more funny, his momentum became bigger, and he had more businessman's style.
This is probably what the screenwriter wants to convey to the audience, the city of Osaka, from the attraction of the merchant community.
Screenshot of The Solicitor In the Episode/Lonely 6
Behind the attraction, there is also a very devilish detail. That is, the real estate agent friend, when encouraging Goro to decorate the model room, said that you can boldly decorate until the person who comes to see the house can feel that the decoration costs a lot of money at a glance, and he must earn it when he buys it, then he can quickly sell the house.
When we see this, we can only smile, why?
Because I remembered that I picked a hotel in Osaka several times in the past, I did pick it every time I picked it looked very special, but when I actually stayed, I found that either the location of the hotel was not very convenient, or the hotel itself was actually just converted from a dilapidated office building, and the surrounding environment was not commensurate with the interior style.
This is indeed the mind of Osaka businessmen, good at packaging, the routine is very deep, and at the same time, it will use warm and thoughtful service to make you feel as if you have not been pitted, so the unexpected comprehensive evaluation is not bad.
It is also because of this experience, and later, Abu Travel Notes in Osaka for customized users to book a hotel has become, if you want to live in Osaka comfortable, it is still those old hotels, such as new Otani, Imperial Hotel, Mitsui Hotel is more reliable.
Osaka Shin Otani Hotel outside the window live view / Abu friends photo
These old middle and high-end hotels, from environmental site selection to comprehensive facilities, are relatively more guaranteed.
What's more interesting is that they are more advanced, but in the Osaka hotel discount season, it is easier to get the benefits, such as we have booked 800 yuan / night in the new Otani. If you give up such a hotel, but in order to go out shopping convenience, choose to book the same price in Shinsaibashi, or Namba, it seems that the decoration is also a luxurious hotel, the actual experience, may be three or four levels lower than the new Otani can not be surprised.
It's like, you think you live in a four-star hotel, but really live down, but found that it is actually like the domestic home-like convenient business hotel level, although not necessarily how uncomfortable you live, but the psychological gap, but also always make people feel a little wrong.
Around Tennoji Temple
Let's look at the location of the first restaurant that Goro went to eat, the location of the Osaka ware store "Ganshin や", which is actually located very south of Osaka and is also a place that most tourists rarely go.
Screenshot of the map around "Gansin や" / Abu Travel Notes
Of course, if you really want to eat, you can start from Namba Station, take three stops to the south, get off at Meizhangyuan Station, and then walk seven or eight hundred meters to arrive, this shop eats a lot of Chinese tourists, in the domestic public review network, this store has 105 messages, and many are for the punch card "Lonely Gourmet" to go, the evaluation is very good.
Abu Travel Notes is not far away from it, around Tennoji Station.
In fact, there are also people who walk to this shop from Tennoji Station, and the walking distance is 1500 meters. Compared to Mijoen Station, Tennoji Station is a little more familiar with the awareness of international travelers, and the HARUKA Train from Kansai Airport to Kyoto passes through Tennoji Station.
International tourists who come to Osaka rarely go to Kyoto, so most of them will consider staying in Osaka near Tennoji Station, which is conveniently located.
However, although many tourists live near Tennoji Station, they only use this place as a transit point, and few people will notice the ancient temple near it, Shitennoji Temple.
Photo by Shitennoji Garan/Boss
This Shitenno-ji Temple, arguably one of the earliest temples in Japan, was established in 593 AD and was founded in Osaka or Namba-kyo. Osaka, as the capital of the Japanese, is actually much older than Nara in Heijo-kyo and Kyoto in Heian-kyo.
As for the Shitennoji Temple, which symbolizes ancient Osaka, according to our customized user feedback, not only is there few people, the courtyard is beautiful, if you have time, it is still recommended to go to see.
To the south of Tennoji Station, in the direction of Kansai Airport, there is also a tram that is very suitable for day trips to Osaka, the Sakakai Train.
From Tennoji Station, it heads south to the 1,800-year-old Sumiyoshi Taisha Shrine, which is important for Osaka and the entire Kansai region, and further south, sakai city, famous for its knives, which was also a very famous port trade city during the Sengoku period of Japan, so there are many Edo relics that can be excavated.
SakaiShi Station /Photo by Hiroshi Natsume
Between Sakai and Kansai Airport, there is another small city worth mentioning, that is Kishiwada, which generally holds a huge float parade in mid-September, the appearance of the 15th and 16th, although compared to the Gion Festival in Kyoto, foreigners do not know much about this float parade, but for Kansai people, in a sense, it is more popular with locals than the Gion Festival, because it is more localized, less sightseeing, and more folklore.
Back to Tennoji Station, the area from It to Abeno Station is a commercial redevelopment area in Osaka. For example, many people may think that the highest aerial observatory in Osaka is in the area of Shinsaibashi and Umeda in the north, which tourists often visit, but in fact, the highest in Osaka is in the HARUKAS building in Abeno, which has a 300-meter-high observation deck.
Compared with Osaka's business districts, which are more familiar to Chinese tourists, such as Shinsaibashi and Umeda, the area around Tennoji Temple is closer to the daily life of Osaka people. On weekends, you can take your children to the zoo and park near Tennoji Station, and shuttle through some of Abeno's shopping mall facilities, which is the daily leisure scene of ordinary Osaka families.
Abeno Harukas/Official Image
In addition, the four Tennoji Temples have market days on the 21st and 22nd of each month, and the Masters' Association and the Prince's Association have two days to catch the market, because this market is held almost every month, and indeed there is a more civic atmosphere.
Tennoji Temple is very busy, but some places may be too much for ordinary tourists, so it is necessary to remind you that cheap accommodation on the southeast side of Shinjin-miya, east of Ogi no Tea House, should be careful.
Sometimes I will see someone say that they found a particularly cheap hotel over there, but after staying in it, they found all kinds of abnormalities, the walls were dirty, even moldy, and the sound insulation was very poor, and they heard sounds like fighting or quarreling in the early morning.
If so, it is highly probable that this person should have mistakenly entered the neighboring area, the so-called Osaka slum area, which was originally called "Kabukizaki".
Poster for the film "Kabuki"/"The Graveyard of the Sun" set in 1960
In fact, to say that the neighboring area is a slum is somewhat exaggerated. It's just a little more depressed than the average neighborhood, and the vending machines on the streets sell drinks that are not seen in other parts of Japan and cost as little as 50 yen. This place is also an area where migrant workers are settled on a daily basis, as well as some homeless homeless people who set up open-air tents.
1,000-2,000 yen a night, a particularly cheap hostel, probably a former guest, is really a homeless man, in bad weather, occasionally live in a bath, rest place. Therefore, when you search for a hotel yourself, especially on the southeast side of Shin-Imai Palace, to the east of Ogi Nobuya, you must see the specific location clearly.
Osaka Ayyo Osaka Explosion Skewer
A little bit about the two restaurants that Goro went to eat. To be honest, the food shown in this episode is very good-looking, which will trigger the audience's stomach to be hungry.
The first shop, "Ganshin や", sells Osaka yaki, which is The most representative of Osaka's popular cuisine.
Abu Travel Notes on Osaka Yaki, originally did not have much good feelings, because the usual kind of paste texture, plus excessive sauce, salad sauce and sweet soy sauce together, the mixed taste is indeed too bad, but this small shop, but it makes us hungry.
Why, it has a shallot-flavored octopus teppanyaki inside, which looks thin and crispy, and adds less soy sauce to enhance the taste, changing our usual impression of Osaka yaki; in addition, in the luxurious seafood fried noodles are also accompanied by semi-cooked sterile eggs, a knife cut down, the yolk flows out, it is very appetizing.
The half-cooked egg on the fried noodles is the best / "Lonely" 6 screenshot
I also saw such a shot, as a result, we went to the kitchen on the first floor, went to adjust the batter ourselves, and with shrimp skin, squeezed vegetables, fried a pancake on the pan, and then fried a poached egg, plus our own spicy seafood universal sauce, rolled up and eaten a little, before solving the poison.
It was also when I saw this that I suddenly understood that the original impression of a very high-end teppanyaki restaurant can also make a luxurious civilian feeling in Osaka. In such a civilian teppanyaki restaurant, you only need to spend seven or eight hundred yen at noon to eat the seafood flavor of the teppanyaki stir-fried.
For a piece of cuisine, it has no other popular elements than cheap and convenient, and at the same time can give people a sense of high-end atmosphere, and Osaka yaki shops are such a existence.
Ganxin や shop interior view / "Lonely" 6 screenshot
The atmosphere of this shop also adheres to the consistent style of The Goro Shop, and it is a husband and wife shop, the simple storefront with clean but slightly old furnishings, a look is open for many years, and it is in a residential area, logically speaking, such a shop, without two brushes, can not be opened.
The second restaurant that Goro went to eat was a fried skewer shop called Takeda.
As a famous snack in Osaka, the fried skewers that Osaka people usually pick up are not the same as the kebabs we are used to picking up in China, and it is the usual practice of Eating The skewers after being fried is the usual practice of Osaka fried skewers, and the dipping sauce is Worcester sauce (Shanghai's yellow card soy sauce, Cantonese people's gnashing juice) to base, and then add the secret recipe of each kebab shop's own small ingredients.
The location of this shop is in Hirano, also not far from Tennoji Station, it is also a distance of 2 stops, leaving the station 650 meters south, near Guangyong Temple, it is not an ordinary shop, but the so-called Japanese roadside stall - Yadai, which has been operated by locals for decades since 1970.
The appearance of Takeda / Screenshot of "Lonely" 6
This store is also very popular with Chinese, although it only has a score of 3.31 on Tablog, but the domestic public review network, the rating is as high as 4.72 points, it seems that the Chinese that have been eaten, to this store's emotional score is really high.
Just go here to eat, I heard that the map positioning is not very accurate, the shop is not easy to find. If you can't find it, you may wish to find the Nearby Guangyong Temple on the map first, and then walk around the surrounding area, which should not be difficult to find. In addition, this small fried skewer stall is not open every day, it will be closed on Japanese holidays, Thursdays and Sundays, so before deciding to go, it is best to look at the calendar, not if you want to eat, you must be able to eat.
However, there are many shops that make good skewers in Osaka. Judging from the Osaka snack rating list that Abu Travel Notes has inquired many times, there are more high-rated fried skewer shops than Osaka's more famous takoyaki, so it doesn't matter if you can't eat "Takeda", you can find a higher-rated store on the Japanese public review Tabelog to try.
Rule, fried skewer sauce can only be dipped once / "Lonely" 6 screenshots
Speaking of which, do you see who the solicitor brother in the play is? He is the one who played the Osaka manga artist Kamiya in the Japanese drama "Spark", and now appears in the Osaka drama of "Lonely Foodie", a real and perfect character cameo.
In addition, by the way, another Sentence of Osaka Dialect is spoken by goro, that is, when Goro was eating, he met the Osaka uncle and gave him the almighty Osaka spit - "Naku Ale".
When Osaka people jokingly say something strange and wonderful to you, you can respond with it, which means the equivalent of "what ghost" in the Chinese world.
This is also a very Osaka-flavored bridge section.
"What a ghost" of the Osaka dialect version / "Lonely" 6 screenshots