Osaka Tennoji Zoo and Janjan Yokocho shopping street. This is the home of kushikatsu - deep-fried skewered meat and vegetables. Shinsekai is depicted in many Japanese novels, comics, movies, dramas ...

Osaka is a popular destination for U.S. travelers to Japan and for good reason. The city has a distinct, delicious food scene that's so massive it can be overwhelming. Here are the local specialties ...

While there are many ways of getting to Osaka from Kyoto (including a 13-minute bullet train), we recommend taking the Keihan ...

Over the course of 3 hours, you’ll taste up to 13 different dishes at five local eateries, covering everything from takoyaki ...

Behind the bar, two elderly women are busy preparing drinks and, more importantly, cooking side dishes of kushikatsu, the deep-fried skewers that Osaka is famed for. I order some — little plates ...

Osaka's Daruma specialises in kushikatsu: skewers of meat, seafood or vegetables battered and deep-fried to a golden crunch.Anna Webster This Osaka-born, golf ball-size street snack is made by ...

“I'm taking you to a very special kushikatsu restaurant for our first dinner,” she says, speeding ahead of me. Dinner, she lets me know, happens twice in Osaka, and she pulls me down a side ...

Kushikatsu is a firm favorite in the foodie's paradise of Osaka. Fast, tasty and cheap, this deep-fried food on a stick is popular with Osakans who don't like wasting time and expect value for money.

along with an array of authentic kushikatsu – panko-breaded, fried meats and vegetables on skewers, which is native to Osaka. They got to play the raucous Japanese drinking game of Chinchirorin ...

Entrepreneur Charles Paw first discovered Kushikatsu Daruma in Osaka. "There's always a line there, it's always packed." And since the first time he tried it, he had to keep going back.