RETRO OSAKA Street Food: Exploring Shinsekai, Osaka’s “New World”

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On the hunt for Osaka street food, Shizuka explores Osaka’s Shinsekai (新世界 - lit. “New World”) district, which opened in 1912 modeled after Paris and Coney Island. Along the way, she visits a dagashi bar that specializes in cheap snacks that were popularized post-WWII, strolls through New World Market, and stops by the Billiken Shrine.

When Shinsekai first opened, it was meant to revitalize and modernize the area, but today it has a retro image. Janjan Yokocho (a.k.a. Nanyodori Shotengai) is a covered shopping street in the area that’s reminiscent of the Showa era, with retro shooting games, standing bars, and dagashi-ya snack shops. During the 1920s, this yokocho connected the Shinsekai area and the red light district. Shop owners would play the shamisen to attract customers, hence the name “janjan” (onomatopoeia for the sound of the shamisen).

LOCATIONS:
Dagashi Bar Penguindo
-- 2 Chome-3-21 Ebisuhigashi, Naniwa Ward, Osaka, 556-0002
Nikuryori Sakamoto
-- 1 Chome-22-6 Ebisuhigashi, Naniwa Ward, Osaka, 556-0002
Nakayama Kaho
-- 1 Chome-22-11 Ebisuhigashi, Naniwa Ward, Osaka, 556-0002
Billiken Shrine
-- 3 Chome-6-1 Ebisuhigashi, Naniwa Ward, Osaka, 556-0002
Takoyaki Kitaya
-- 3 Chome-4-8 Ebisuhigashi, Naniwa Ward, Osaka, 556-0002
Tsuriganeya Honpo
-- 1 Chome-7-11 Ebisuhigashi, Naniwa Ward, Osaka, 556-0002

0:00 Intro
1:08 Dagashi Bar Penguindo
5:22 Nikuryori Sakamoto
6:42 Exploring Shinsekai
7:00 Nakayama Kaho
9:33 Billiken Shrine
10:12 Janjan Yokocho
10:44 Takoyaki Kitaya
12:28 Tsuriganeya Honpo

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🎬 CREDITS:
HOST » Shizuka Anderson
DIRECTOR » Aaron Eccles-Smith
VIDEO EDITOR » Esteban Haga
PRODUCER » Serkan Toso

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