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Free cancellation available
Price is €8 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

  • Travel through time in the “Nation’s Kitchen” and discover the delicious history of Osaka! Solve clues, uncover foodie secrets, and explore how the city evolved from the Edo period to the vibrant metropolis it is today.

    Using your smartphone, you’ll solve 10 puzzles while walking through famous areas like Dotonbori, uncovering stories about traditional dishes, culinary customs, and cultural rituals at Japanese temples. Each challenge brings you closer to tasting and understanding the heart of Kansai’s incredible food scene. Along the way, you’ll spot mouthwatering specialities - and we highly suggest you try a few!

    What makes this tour unique?
    It’s a flavor-packed, interactive walking quest that blends Osaka’s culinary delights with rich historical storytelling and real-world exploration.

    Perfect for food lovers, curious travellers, couples, and families looking for a playful and delicious way to discover Osaka.

Activity location

  • Ebisu Bridge
    • 6
    • 542-0071, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • 6
    • 6
    • 542-0071, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

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Osaka Food Quest: Self-Guided Culinary & History Adventure in English

  • Activity duration is 1 hour1h
    1h
  • Opening hours: Fri 00:00-23:59
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
€8.49 x 1 Adult€8.49
Total
Price is €8.49

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    10 puzzle-based challenges
  • Inclusions
    Mobile access code for the quest
  • Inclusions
    Storyline content focused on Osaka’s food and history
  • Inclusions
    Flexibility: pause and resume anytime
  • Exclusions
    A physical tour guide

Know before you book

    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
    • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
    • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Ebisu Bridge

  • 5m
Originally constructed to provide access to the nearby Ebisu Shrine, the bridge is the location of a legendary curse on Osaka's baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers. More practically, the bridge provides a link between the Shinsaibashi-suji and Ebisubashi-suji shopping districts. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.

Konamon Museum (Pass by)

Konamon Museum is a place where you can eat, learn about and make Takoyaki: Osaka's soul food. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.

Showa horumon Yakiniku Dotombori (Pass by)

Showa Taishu Horumon Dotonbori is a horumon restaurant, specialised in beef offal. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.

Hozen-ji (Pass by)

Built in 1637, Hozenji Temple pays homage to Fudo Myoo, one of five guardians of Buddhism. During the 1600s, Namba and the surrounding area of Dotonbori were blossoming as a centre for entertainment, with dramatic performances of kabuki and bunraku taking place throughout the district. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.

National Bunraku Theatre (Pass by)

The National Bunraku Theatre was established in 1984 as the home of Bunraku in the Kansai region. The theatre has a main hall with 753 seats and a small hall with 159 seats. The main hall is used mainly for Bunraku performances, but also for traditional Japanese dance performances, and other forms of drama. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.

Kuromon Market

  • 10m
Kuromon, which literally means “black gate,” was originally a fish market that opened around 1822 (and was approved as an official market in 1902). The name is said to have come from the black gate of Enmyo Temple, which stood in this area until 1912, the last year of the Meiji Period. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.

Namba Yasaka Shrine (Pass by)

The Namba Yasaka Shrine is said to have been commissioned by the Emperor Hanzei in honour of his father, Emperor Nintoku. The present day Kawachi Matsubara City was the original site of the shrine. After Hideyoshi Toyotomi began the construction of the Osaka castle, it was moved to its present location. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the storey of this place.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIES
    Ebisu Bridge
    • 6
    • 542-0071, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    6
    • 6
    • 542-0071, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

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