OSAKA INFORMATION
Osaka Information: General information about
Osaka Japan
and where it fits into the
Japanese culture.
If
Tokyo is Japan's
capital, Osaka might be called its anti-capital.
Osaka is the main
metropolis of the Kansai region, and its inhabitants exhibit a strong
rivalry towards the Kanto region, from baseball, food, popular
culture, even to which side they ride escalators (on the left in
Tokyo, but on the right in Osaka).
Osaka skyline, Japan -- by
MattSal
Back in the days of the Tokugawa shogunate, Edo (now
Tokyo) was
the austere seat of military power and Kyoto was the home to the
Imperial court and its effete courties, but Osaka was where the
merchants made and lost their fortunes. To this day
Osaka remains Japan's best place to eat,
drink and party, and Osakans still greet each other with moukarimakka?,
"are you making money?".
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(Article
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Wikitravel article
by Wikitravel users Based on work by Jpatokal. Based on work by
Sakurai Midori, Jose Ramos, Mark Jaroski, Craig Fryer, Ted O'Neill,
Yann Forget and Paul N. Richter, Wikitravel user(s) Nikita Borisov and
Nils and Anonymous user(s) of Wikitravel. Article used under
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