Day 1: Dotonbori - Osaka, Japan

Love our Airbnb stay near Nipponbashi Station. We were able to walk to Dotonbori within 10 minutes walk. We could eat, drink and shop irresponsibly without worrying about having a long way to travel back to the studio.

The famous running man sign. So many tourists stopping here for a photo.

Nearby the sign of the running man, there is a restaurant specialize in crab cuisine. Outside the restaurant, they have a stall set up selling crab dishes. Totally OVERATED! Totally not worth the money. I ordered a grilled crab leg for 900 yen just the amount above. The crab itself isn't very meaty. The meat part is very soggy. Not a good crab at all and for that price....rip off. I should have known better. I shouldn't have bother trying at all. I've had many king crabs before and this was the worse ever. I should have just wait until I am in Canada to get a good crab.

Then they were selling sushi too. 4 pieces of crab sushi for 2160 yen. It really is a ridiculous price, but it made us really curious about whether it is actually super good or not to be charging over 2000 yen for 4 pieces of sushi.

Curiosity got the best of us and we ordered. The packaging is nice. Quite a waste to have so many layers of packaging when we would just devour in in seconds.

It's good, but I wouldn't even pay half the price for it. Absolutely don't know what's the hype about. We were going to dine in. Fortunately, the restaurant was fully booked that night and I am glad it was. I bet the food quality would pretty much be the same as the ones they were selling at the door, which was a meh quality for a high price. Just a place to earn tourists money.

The street is so busy and crowded. Quite difficult to find a restaurant where we didn't need to queue over an hour for food.

There wer plenty of restaurants that I wanted to try, but the line up was just too long. :( Seriously, do they really serve that giant size plate of takoyaki? And for 980 yen? No, right?