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<\/p>\nDoutonbori Street is Osaka’s primary entertainment district. It comes to life at night: bright, noisy and crowded.
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Some of us were looking for a bar where we could buy some sake. This proved surprisingly difficult to find, at least for clueless tourists speaking little Japanese.<\/p>\n
We wandered into some sort of multi-story entertainment center with a Roaring Twenties\/Taishou Era theme.
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This was a mistake. All of the bars and lounges in the building seemed to serve only fake non-alcoholic beverages. Finally we found a little hole-in-the-wall bar that served actual sake.<\/p>\n
For future reference, when looking for a place that sells sake it is probably best to ask about “Japanese sake” (nihon no osake<\/em>). “Sake” by itself can mean any alcoholic beverage including beer. When ordering, just ask for “hot sake” (atsui osake o kudasai<\/em>) or “cold sake” (tsumetai osake o kudasai<\/em>).<\/p>\n (Of course you can always go the the 7-11 and buy it in little jars, but let’s hope we never get that desperate.)<\/p>\n After that we went looking for food. If we had wanted a crab dinner it would have been easy, but the consensus seemed to be for sushi. We wandered around looking at a number of restaurants, but none seemed to have sushi. Finally a waitress at one of the wrong restaurants took pity on us and led us to a very nice sushi place… …where you can get very<\/em> fresh sushi.
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