Osaka
About Osaka
Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third-most populous city in Japan, following the special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With an estimated population of 2,816,247 as of October 1, 2025 and a population density of about 12,505 people per square kilometer, it is the largest component of the Keihanshin Metropolitan Area, the second-largest metropolitan area in Japan and the 10th-largest urban area in the world with more than 19 million inhabitants.
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In 19th century Osaka, flat residents owned the rights to their own urine, but the rights of their poo belonged to their landlord.
from 319: No Such Thing As 19th Century Feudal Japanese Monopoly, 2020-05-01 at 00:43:40 · read transcript
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Practically there is, because if you put some. something on a conveyor belt that's going more than, let's say, 20 miles an hour. The stuff's just going to fly off. Yeah. I was wondering if it was going to go fast enough to be worth getting on it yourself if you needed to get from Tokyo to Osaka. It probably would be, wouldn't it? That would be incredibly cool.
No Such Thing As An Accidental Stuffed Crust, 2024-08-15 · listen
Yeah. Both of them did. And so clearly in, what was that, in 1970s, Osaka and Tokyo, it was just a huge hobby. And but like Miyamoto, who was the guy who invented Mario and Zelda, Zelda basically came about because he used to go, he loved finding caves and going into caves, and that gave him the idea of a fantasy adventure. Weirdly, nature has informed the biggest video games there, and I'm pretty sure I'm right in saying that Pokemon is the biggest entertainment franchise of all time.
No Such Thing As Pudsey's Passport, 2026-01-01 · listen
You'd be like, oh I'd want her to be remembered as as you know, the wife of the man who first climbed Everest and to successfully do that You have sometimes you have to cut some strings I'm sorry if that sounds harsh. She would have understood I think Um, do you know how tall the uh, the smallest unclimbed mountain in japan is I'll give you a clue. It's in osaka. I'm going to go for um, 12,000 feet.
192: No Such Thing As A Restaurant Menu For Hats, 2017-11-17 · listen
This woman just figured out this random thing, I think she was studying at Manchester at the time, about Welsh seaweed, and they picked up on it and suddenly it revolutionized sushi, and it meant they had a sushi industry, and they now celebrate her. She's this woman who no one in this country has heard of and who never visited Japan is celebrated there. She's known as Mother of the Sea. There's a festival held in her honour every year in Osaka on April the 14th. People go and they pray to her and they give offerings. What?
No Such Thing As A Rice Krispie With Feelings, 2017-07-28 · listen
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