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[ANIME, MANGA] Pop culture tour
Joined 2024
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Anime, manga merchandise places hopping.
You can shop around for anime, merchandise, manga, figurings, retro games, etc. Also, you can go to a Japanese arcade, maid cafe, have street food, etc.
Itinerary
This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!
Meeting Point
JR Osaka station
- at JR Osaka station Chūō exit If we don't have enough time, we can meet at Nipponbashi station (subway).
Umeda Pop culture tour
We're going to
●Nintendo Osaka
●Pokemon center
●Capcom store
We can also go to
●a huge capsule toy place
●Ghibli store
●another anime merchandise store
●Japanese photo sticker booths
●shopping for general merchandise, home appliances
etc if we have time.
Otaroad for anime merchandise, manga, maid cafe, arcade
It takes around 30 minutes from Umeda area to Otaroad(close to Nipponbashi station).
We can explore Otaroad area.
It has
●manga bookstores
●retro game shops
●anime merchandise stores
●figuring shops
●arcades
●maid cafe
●computer and its parts shops
etc
Ending Point
At Nipponbashi station
Want to personalize this tour?
This tour can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Click below to send me a message with your requests.
Inclusions & Exclusions
●Guide fee
●Transportation fee 240 yen(from Umeda to Nipponbashi) or more
●Your food, drink fee
Tour Important Information
●Feel free to ask me if you want a personalized tour.
●Many stores in Otaroad close at 8 pm or 9 pm.
●My schedule isn't fixed because of my work, so sometimes I can't begin at 2 pm.
●Please let me know if you want to begin the tour earlier or later.
●You can have food or drink during the tour if you want to.
●Costs for your group(travel, food, and drink costs, etc) are not included in the guide fee.
on Tuesday this tour only starts from around 5 pm.
on Satuday this tour can start from 12 pm as well.
Important message from the supplier
I have another job and I'm usually not available in the morning.
I could make time in the morning if you book my tour a month before the date or earlier.
The schedule below is my usual available time but my work schedule is different every week, so feel free to contact me if you are interested in my tours!
I need 1-1.5 hours more to go to Kyoto.
-Monday：from around 5 pm
-Tuesday：from around 6 pm
-Wednesday：from around 2 pm
-Friday：from around 8 pm
-Saturday：from around 2 pm
-Sunday：from around 7 pm
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
Joined 2024
About Tour Guide Kazu Y.
Please check "IMPORTANT".
Hi, I’m Kazuto! Please call me “Kazu”! I was born and raised in Osaka.
I’ve been working as a Japanese tutor and sometimes show my students around Osaka.
My students sometimes feel stressed in Japan due to the language barrier even though they study Japanese and I’ve decided to become a tour guide in Kansai to help tourists!
DO YOU WANT A STRESS-FREE TRIP?
I can be your private concierge for your trip.
Let me know if you need any help!
By the way, I like anime, manga, video games, I’m an Otaku :)
There are a lot of “otaku” places in Osaka like “Nintendo Osaka”, “Pokemon Center”, “Shonen-JUMP store”, “Universal Studio Japan” and so on.
I want to show impressive Japanese Pop Culture so much!!
Japan has limited-time anime, game or manga-collab cafes. You have to book for many of them and I can help you with the booking!
Also, I like eating out! I can offer bar-hopping tours, share good ramen restaurants, and so on!
I’m looking forward to seeing you! Let’s explore deep Osaka!
Reviews
“A helpful and understanding guide”
Kazu is a very flexible, helpful, and understanding guide. We booked his night tour, and we messaged several times prior to the day as he sought to tailor the tour to our particular tastes. When the time came, though, I unfortunately had to cancel as after touring Japan for two weeks prior, I finally reached the point where my feet wouldn't carry me any further. When I couldn't make it, Kazu was very understanding and gave us suggestions for things near our hotel instead. Ever since I first contacted Kazu, his communication has been excellent, and he has shown a kind nature. I have no doubt the tour would have been fun, and wish we could have made it. I hope to return to Osaka and have the chance to book with him again - and this time, pace myself so I can make it! Thanks for being great about this, Kazu.
Kazu Y.
Thank you so much for your review! Let me show you around Osaka when you come to Osaka again :) I look forward to meeting you next time!
“Amazing day out in Osaka!”
Myself and my husband spent a day with Kazu exploring Osaka. Kazu was very friendly with excellent english. He developed an amazing itinerary for us both with a mix of things we both wanted to do (from historic shrines and sake tasting to anime/gaming shops and a local BBQ restaurant). I strongly recommend getting a local guide in Osaka to help prioritise and navigate around the main tourist sites but also to take you to good local places and more peaceful areas and shrines. Osaka can otherwise be a bit overwhelming with the amount of sites, restaurants, bars, shops etc. to visit! Kazu was able to show us many places we otherwise would have struggled to find. He was also very helpful and answered the many questions I had throughout the day. I would definitely have Kazu as our guide again.
Kazu Y.
Thank you so much for your review! We went to many different places for pop culture, food, and traditional things this time. I hope I can see you again and show you around more local places in Osaka next time :)
“An Excellent Guide & Wonderful Evening”
As our first time to Japan and a culture as alien as can be considered as an Englishman, my partner and I agreed that we would benefit from a local guide, not just to places of interest but also about life in Japan and the Japanese culture from J-Pop, Otaku, Izakaya, Work, Life, Beer and Sake! Using the GoWithGuide website, Kazu’s profile caught our eye. We messaged him with a high-level outline of what we were looking for. Within 30 minutes we got a reply with an initial hello and welcome, which was really nice and comforting, and further information about him and what he could do for us. This combined with the information on his profile and subsequent interactive messages, confirmed Kazu would be the ideal personal guide for us and confirmed the booking through the GoWithGuide website. Over the next couple of days, Kazu remained in contact with us feeling like he was going the extra mile to make sure we had thought of everything and offering suggestions for consideration. On the day of our session, Kazu kept in contact and he met us at the hotel. From then he was super attentive, making sure we were happy, enjoying ourselves, experiencing the local culture and etiquette. The Japanese know how to provide a service and Kazu’s tailor-made service was second to none. He took us to all the places and local experiences we wanted to savour including pop culture, arcades, Izakaya Experiences, Beer, Sake and shopping. We felt he gave us a super overview and understanding of everyday life in Osaka. It was as though we were out with a friend for the evening. We can highly recommend Kazu’s personal guide service and Kazu as a professional & an individual. We are planning to come back to Osaka in 2025 and will look up Kazu to book another personal guide. To “Kazu”: “Thank you so much for the experience, we feel we have made a friend and we hope to catch up next time, Damian & Quango”.
Kazu Y.
Thank you for your review! We needed more time for bar-hopping :) I hope we can do many different things next time!
$110/ per group
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