Hungry Osaka Street Food Tour:15 Tastings & 3 Drinks with a Local
Description
Winner of the TripAdvisor 'Best of the Best' (2025 & 2026) and the Viator Experience Awards (2025), this local-led evening tour through Osaka takes you through the retro neighbourhood of Shinsekai. Join our experienced guides for an authentic Osaka street food adventure filled with history, culture, and laughs. You’ll explore hidden alleys, arcades, and eateries only locals know, stopping at five hand-picked spots we visit often. Enjoy 15+ dishes, 3 local drinks, and Osaka favourites like takoyaki, karaage, kushikatsu, udon, and oden among many others. Small group size keeps things fun and personal—great for solo travellers, couples, or friends. Learn about Osaka’s post-war past and lively food culture while meeting locals and getting stories and tips you won’t find in any guidebook. Our guides live and breathe the city, allow us to show you the real Osaka and its food scene.
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Time permitting, we’ll take a short stroll around Shinsekai—an often-overlooked area packed with hidden gems, fun facts, and sights to discover.
Walk past Tsutenkaku, the famous landmark tower that is the focal point of the area and see where kushikatsu all began. Walk through the streets that over a century ago, were designed to bring a western feeling to Osaka.
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(2,954)
Excellent tour guide! We learned lot about the local food and customs.
All of the places that we ate at we close proximity to one another. So not much walking involved at all. A variety of food tastings were offered. The variety of food tastings were a wonderful experience and good introduction into Osaka culinary delights. But most importantly our guide Tim was excellent. He was knowledgeable, helpful, and friendly. He truly showed us his love for Osaka food.
We loved the walking food tour with Tim, he was knowledgeable, friendly and a little funny. Nice mix of food tasting and cold beers. Highly recommend this tour and not too much walking…
The most incredible way to experience the Japanese food scene!! Adam was the greatest tour guide I’ve ever experienced. His knowledge is unrivalled, I learnt so much about Osaka and Japan. The food was absolutely incredible. You MUST do this if you’re in Osaka. 10/10 on everything.
Adam Smith was a great tutor guide. He provided the history of Japan, had great food knowledge and was a pleasure to be around.
Best tour guide I’ve had whilst travelling. Had such a great time. Adam knew the answer to every question we have saved up since coming to Japan.
Amazing food! Friendly tour guide!
Scott was absolutely awesome! He was very fun and outgoing. An excellent guide and definitely appreciated his recommendations! Would highly recommend for anyone exploring the Osaka scene.
We really enjoyed our tour By Matt. He was very knowledgeable and really tailored the experience to our family.
Highly recommend the Hungry Osaka food tour. Our guide Matt was fantastic. He selected five different restaurants, offering a variety of food and drinks. With his quick wit and long-term experience living in Osaka, he was able to answer all of our questions and our two families with several sub-10 year old children had a great time.
