Day 9: Osaka – Doguyasuji

The Doguyasuji stretch actually continues from where Sennichimae Shopping Arcade, and is marked on our Explorer Osaka Guide to be an area that features specialized stores selling cooking and kitchen tools. The stretch itself isn’t very long – perhaps just a 100 meters long – and there are perhaps just three dozen stores in all, ranging from shops that sell just pottery to shops that sell wares for industrial-sized kitchens to feed thousands. A lot of the pottery items are certainly cheaper than what we saw at the tourist traps at several of the popular temple sites in Kyoto, though they don’t come in no-frills packaging (if at all even) and not packaged in gift box sets or the like.

We went into a couple of shops to check out their pottery ware wanting to pick up some small items for our kitchen, and eventually settled on a two matching pairs of sauce dishes and bowls for a total of about 1,120円. Hopefully they’ll survive the trip home.:)

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The start of the Doguyasuji Shopping Arcade.
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Ling browsing through one shop's wares. This shop has sufficient walking room, as compared to...
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... this one! This neighboring shop was scary to navigate, given the extremely narrow walk areas. Swing your backpack or your legs the wrong way, and you'll send the heaps of pottery crashing to the floor.
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Made for a very colorful picture.:)
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The same scary shop LOL.
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Ling with her her choice of items. These are the sauce dishes. We chose matching soup bowl items too.

2 thoughts on “Day 9: Osaka – Doguyasuji

  1. Cramped walking aisles indeed. You’d never have gotten me inside one of those places for fear I’d end up having to buy the shop outright!

  2. yaya, very cramped so imagine you accidentally swing and keprang!!! that’s it hahah…

    the uncle i buy from always bubble wraps and stuffs my items into a box so it will survive the trip home. and i will hand carry the items.

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