Dotonbori is a shoppers and foodie paradise in Osaka, Japan.
This street is mostly lined up with food joints and a few souvenir shops.
And the largest attractions I would recommend seeing are the sculptures above the storefronts.
Almost every shop here sports an attraction on its storefront, each one unique seeking attraction of the tourists.
Here’s one food joint that serves crab dishes. So, they have put up a large crab that looks real.
This storefront shows a winking pig along with the menu and previews of the food items.
Also, the food joint is seen to be accessible for a wheelchair-bound person.
Here’s an attractive dragon that goes inside and comes outside on the storefront.
Several vending machines can also be seen.
This storefront has a fake replica of their best dish on the top and a flurry of displays and smaller food replicas in the showcase.
Several other shops show objects like strawberries, more dragons, brains and octopuses.
The Octopus balls dish called Takoyaki is especially famous here.
This storefront has a couple of spiderman manikins one of which is grabbing their food item made of seashells.
Here’s another huge dragon in the clouds with some food items in its mouth.
This is a storefront of a souvenir shop that is neatly leveled with the main street.
Also on display are showcases and money exchange machines.
This storefront shows large replicas of their crispy golden food item with a golden boy happily smiling.
This is one of the largest storefront decorations with an angry man holding a hot dog.
The person’s manikin is also seen standing at the door.
This attractive storefront shows a manikin in a traditional Japanese costume playing a drum.
The drum player is robotic in that it moves the limbs and produces some music on the drum.
Many other storefronts display automobiles and other funny-looking manikins to attract tourists.
Another storefront has a huge portion of their meat food items on display to give an idea of what they cook and sell.
This shop perhaps sells beef food items and has a golden cow along with some family enjoying their food.
This food joint probably sells beef items and shows a bull, burger, and shrimp food item replicas.
The dragon seems to be a favorite with many though they actually do not cook them nor sell them.
The food joints in the Dotonbori market of Osaka have left no stone unturned to attract customers to their shops.
They also have some of the creatures animated.
So sad that the real ones that move are eaten 
