Forget about what popular guide book says

As a local residents in Osaka, Japan, I love to share my personal restaurants and bars in Osaka.

Currently wee are experiencing enormous growth in tourist industries.

Everywhere I go, I see people with suit cases, huge camera and huge group of family

As a manager of guest house and airbnb properties in Osaka, I can not be happier about this phenomenon right now.

But at the same time, I really can not stand when I see lines and lines of people in front of restaurants that are not even worth trying for the amount of time they wait to get in.

No offense to those restaurants, because I used to visit them before it got so crazy.

They are on the guide books and famous blogs for reasons, but I always ask, “is it really worth wasting time in the line when you could have spree those time to try 3 other things?”

My answer is no.

THIS IS OSAKA.

As a local residents of Osaka, I can proudly say that best things we can do here are to EAT and DRINK.

There are more than 1000 ramen and Yakiniku (Japanese Style BBQ) and about 2000 Sushi restaurants only in Osaka.

So why going to the ones that are already packed and takes 1 hour to get the table?

Therefore, as a manager of guest house and airbnb property, I would love to tell all tourists who are thinking of coming to Osaka, Japan to throw all of your guide books and information from the blogs, and start asking locals.

Because I love Osaka too much I want tourists to experience more of Osaka.

So as local guides, I will keep sharing my personal restaurants and bars so I can spread good places where tourists can visit without waiting in the lines.

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I’m going to move your post to the Local Stories section on Connect where the Local Guides from all around the world share their local stories and inspiration why they like to be Local Guides and how they contribute to Google Maps. I will also add a Food & Drink tag.