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Charcoal-grilled marinated beef and offal eaten table-side, the canonical Korean-Japanese Osaka meal. The Tsuruhashi district has the country's densest concentration of family-run yakiniku rooms.
Tsuruhashi grew up around Osaka's Korean diaspora after the 1923 Kanto earthquake displaced workers and again after 1945. The black-market food stalls under the JR rail line became a permanent Korean-Japanese quarter; yakiniku as a sit-down genre was formalised here in the 1950s. The Tsuruhashi tradition keeps the meat lightly marinated and the offal varieties wider than the Tokyo branches that followed.
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Tsuruhashi Koreatown Market ★ 4.4
Tennoji and Abeno · 3-3 Tsuruhashi, Ikuno-ku, Osaka 544-0031
Japan's largest Korean market surrounds Tsuruhashi station in alleys selling kimchi from stone crocks, Korean BBQ cut to order, japchae, makgeolli wine.
Tsuruhashi Fugetsu Namba ★ 4.1
Dotonbori and Namba · Namba CITY South Building 1F, 5-1-60 Namba, Chuo-ku, Osaka 542-0076
The Namba CITY branch of Osaka's Tsuruhashi Fugetsu chain, cooking pork belly and squid okonomiyaki on a teppan counter just south of Dotonbori.
Tsuruhashi Korean Back Alleys ★ 4.0
Tennoji and Abeno · 3-4 Tsuruhashi, Ikuno-ku, Osaka 544-0031
The lanes behind the Tsuruhashi market arcade hold family yakiniku restaurants serving offal over charcoal at ¥150 to ¥300 per skewer from the 1960s.
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