Stores, Malls or Markets in Osaka

This is the Korean Market (at least the most famous) of Osaka. The surounding area is quite run down but has a nice feel to it. Lots of small shops selling Korean goods and many Yakiniku (Korean BBQ) restaurants can be found in the surounding area.

What to buy: Kimuchi.

A crazy selection of miscellaneous goods with the ferris wheel as a cherry on top. This is a chain store but the main place is the Dotonbori store. Take your time to browse through what ever there is in stock.

What to buy: Check the costume section.

What to pay: Up to you.

Osaka is big city with lots of shopping malls and streets. Nothing in particular to recommend here beside that is such big city it is like a shopping heaven. Myself I already have all what I need ;-) So I didn't really look to buy anything special and I didn't wanted to carry anything all the back home either :)

This shopping street spans a length of 2.6km!

They have shops of all sorts here.. Food, clothes of any kind, shoes, bags, lingerie, drugstores...
And there is even pachinkos and hair salons.

I have personally found many great deals here.. like 1000yen for a winter jacket.

On the north end is where Tenjinbashi-roku-chome Stn is, Ogimachi Stn and Minami-morimachi stn is located somewhere in the middle.
It ends off near the river Daikawa (?)
So the Shoutengai (shopping street) can be accessed via any of these 3 stations.

Plenty of restaurants, cheap and expensive, here.

The shrine Tenmangu is located nearby as well.

Many souvenir things of Osaka are sold in the museum shop of the first floor of Osaka Castle. The gaufrette with which is drawing Hideyoshi on the package is very funny and the sweet which carried out the form of Osaka Castle is "Monaka "
Monaka is small beans cream that was wrapped in the wafer of wheat.
Usually, it is a cube. but this Monaka's form is castle.

What to buy: The gaufrette with which is drawing Hideyoshi on the package is 1000yen.
Monoka is 840yen.

Umeda Station incorporates a major transit hub and enough stores to bankrupt a small nation. The Big Man TV is a common meeting point, and the Kinokuniya bookstore next to it is the best place to find English-language books in Osaka. There are also areas called the "Fashion Museum" and "Gourmet Museum." Clothes and food, yes, but nothing museumy about it. The place is enormous and sprawls under several city blocks, so be careful about getting lost. It took me a few visits before I learned my way around.

Orange Street is an area filled with trendy stores and boutiques, and it makes a great wander if you want to take in Japanese youth culture. Some of the stores are in architecturally interesting buildings, and you'll find all kinds of interesting t-shirts with odd saying on them.

This isn't a single shop, but a long double corridor lined with lots of tiny shops and restaurants. When I worked in Osaka it was very close to work, so I would often eat there. There is a good katsu-don place on the OCAT end, and the noodle place across from it has good kare-udon. There are a couple bakeries, and lots of women's clothing boutiques. A bit of everything. It also serves as an underground passageway between the Osaka City Air Terminal, the Takashimaya department store, and the Namba Parks building. The east end puts you at Nipponbashi station and the north end of Den-Den (Electronics) town.