Osaka: Food Tour with 15 Dishes & 3 drinks With Local Expert
The most popular food tour in Osaka 7 years straight! Discover 15 dishes at 5 local eateries & 3 drinks. Local foodie experts will take you to the whole range: Tachino...
Thin flour-and-dashi batter mixed with chopped squid, pressed between two scalding iron plates and cooked in 90 seconds to a chewy, savoury pancake. The Hanshin department store snack park's flagship dish.
Osaka-style ikayaki was born around 1950 at the Momodani Yakiya Kaiyukan and became a city-wide phenomenon when Hanshin Department Store's Snack Park opened a counter in 1957. The high-pressure twin-iron-plate technique is the modern signature. Hanshin's daily queue still moves 5,000 ikayaki on busy days.
3 editor picks for Ikayaki in Osaka, ranked by editorial score. All Osaka signature dishes · Ikayaki across every city.
Kuromon Ichiba Market ★ 4.8
Kuromon and Nipponbashi · 2-4-1 Nipponbashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka 542-0073
Osaka's kitchen since the Edo period: 580 metres of covered arcade with 180 stalls of live-tank seafood, graded wagyu, Kansai vegetables, standing sushi.
Aizuya Takoyaki Namba ★ 4.3
Dotonbori and Namba · Nannan Town No. 5, Namba 5-chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka 542-0076
Around 500 yen buys a plate of takoyaki at Aizuya, the shop that invented it in 1933; seasoned in the batter and served without sauce or mayonnaise.
Dotonbori Takoyaki Juhachiban ★ 4.0
Dotonbori and Namba · Nakaza Cuidaore Building 1F, 1-7-21 Dotonbori, Chuo-ku, Osaka 542-0071
A Dotonbori takeaway takoyaki window whose batter is loosened with dashi and milk and packed with tenkasu, finished with sakura shrimp powder and red ginger.
Learn to cook it, or eat it with a guide
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