On this our second and last day in Osaka, we planned a walking tour through the Minami District, as recommended by Lonely Planet Guide Kyoto & Osaka , which promised: This walk offers a little bit of everything that Minami is famous for. Starting in the bright lights of Dotombori [sic], you’ll head into the Namba area through busy shopping arcades, and onwards to Den Den Town, Osaka’s anime and manga heartland. Next comes Shin-Sekai, a gaudy entertainment district, before finishing at Osaka’s tallest building. We braced ourselves for the onslaught of giant, moving neon billboards; a myriad of specialty street food eateries; multi-storey buildings stacked with toys and comic books; digital arcades; and tacky souvenir shops. The whole prospect portended a blinking sensory overload mixed together with wooden buildings from an analog age. But, hey. Why not!? From our apartment hotel, Central Mansions, we walked to the Tanimachi 6-Chome Metro Station...
