You’ll join one of our hosts to hit the streets and eat your way around the city’s street food stalls. You’ll explore the Namba district as well as the famous Dotonbori area, Osaka’s renowned destination for all things food, wandering through tiny lantern-lit alleyways and neon-lit streets to discover where the best local delicacies are cooked up. You’ll be exposed to regional and traditional Japanese dishes as your host takes you to spots where you can learn all about their origins and local ingredients.
Within 24 hours after booking you'll receive a short questionnaire about your personality and interests. Based on your responses, you'll be assigned a like-minded host. Your host will communicate with you directly to suggest an itinerary to help you discover what makes the city unique. You will also agree on a meeting time and place. Your itinerary is flexible, so during the experience, you can always change your mind about what you want to do.
Posted By : Bryan_D
This is advertised as a street food tour where 6 different foods and 2 drinks would be included which was not the case.
Our first stop was a restaurant in which we had to wait 30 minutes. Then we went down to where all the actual street food was but were told that we would have to pay for whatever we wanted on our own (what!?). And we ended at another restaurant where we had to wait another 30 minutes.
This was a complete waste of money. We actually ended up doing our own street food tour after for a fraction of the cost. The street food ranged from 500-1500 yen and we went to 6 stalls on our own after the tour trying things like octopus, oyster, dumplings, and more. Too bad we wasted our money to have someone take us to a restaurant.
We were expecting to try some of Osaka’s famed street food and for $100, we got to eat at 2 restaurants.
Logistically, this was a nightmare with City Unscripted emailing me 2 days before our tour letting me know we needed to move our scheduled time. So we had to change our travel plans in order to get to Osaka on time. Furthermore, this is an Osaka Street food tour but had the meeting location in Hong Kong.
Wishing I just cancelled and got a refund. Don’t do this tour. Viator needs to remove this from their site as they lost a ton of credibility with me.
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Posted On : 2023-10-14 09:30:31 
Posted By : Bryan_D
Our host Haruhi was fantastic. She showed us some excellent food places throughout Namba and Dontonbori districts. We were a little confused on what was and was not included in the tour however. The tour advertises 6 foods to taste and 2 drinks but we only tasted 3 foods with our purchase and we paid for some additional foods in the market. All in all, we really enjoyed our tour with Haruhi, I just wish it was more clear on what was included.
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Posted On : 2023-10-07 05:26:27
Posted By : Roger W
Our tour guide was not prepared for this tour. Instead of having a plan, the guide kept asking us what we wanted. A tour should have a pre planned itinerary and include a sampling of multiple tastes. When we did stop at a restaurant, the guide order way too much food and not enough varied to get a full understanding of the foods of Osaka. Guide was also not fluent in Japanese nor could they answer any questions about the areas we explored.
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Posted On : 2023-06-21 17:53:51 
Posted By : Anette_L
A great tour in Osaka. We were very pleased with our guide. The Okonomiyaki was amazing . A very good experience.
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Posted On : 2023-06-21 03:01:27
Posted By : Helder m
I was so much happy with this tour. My luck Maria was my guide. She is amazing. She is so cute and patient. Cura sushi was wonderful. Hope to see Maria soon when I come back to Japan.
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Posted On : 2023-06-20 10:10:37
Posted By : Cynthia_H
I would give this 10 stars if I could! Food choices were excellent, tour guide was friendly and knowledgeable, the area we went to was iconic Osaka!
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Posted On : 2023-06-16 21:02:55
Posted By : 179aaaa
Our young Japanese guide took us around the city to try various foods; unfortunately she only had us trying a few things, on our feet, in a food mall and a market, and didn’t give us much to eat at all for the rest of the time. She didn’t speak good English, which made things difficult, and kept asking what we wanted to do and where we wanted to go; for a tourist who’s only been one or two days in a foreign city this is not an easy answer.
We bought some warm tempura shrimps and some cold white wine in a shop, then walked over half hour before we begged our guide to sit somewhere in order to eat. When we finally found a spot on a set of stairs, the tempora was cold and the wine was warm; bad bad.
Our guide was a nice girl, but quite unprepared and she didn’t share with us many information on the city, not cultural nor historical.
She needs to be trained to do a better job.
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Posted On : 2023-05-31 08:57:08
Posted By : sulingsi
We had a fantastic evening trying all kinds of local delicacies with Fumiko, and definitely tried things we never would have otherwise. Loved seeing Dotonbori at night and learning more about Japanese culture and cuisine. It was so much fun.
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Posted On : 2023-05-30 11:46:50
Posted By : Guillaume F
We had a great time with Maria and we got to try lots of different things guided so we knew which to choose from. We recommend doing this on the first day so you know where to go after.
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Posted On : 2023-05-29 20:26:40
Posted By : Nicole K
Absolutely fabulous! We had such a great time. Our guide took us to just the type of food spots we asked for and was a great conversationalist to boot.
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Posted On : 2023-05-23 21:16:26
