The night and day in Matsushima Shinchi, Osaka, an entertainment district that blends into everyday life.

At 10:30 a.m., ryotei restaurants begin to open, one by one, on the main street where about 30 restaurants are gathered, and two near the center are already open, with women showing up one by one. At 11:00 in the afternoon, ryotei restaurants on the back streets also open. The daytime women are cute, too. I couldn’t help but admire the cuteness of the woman in the open-breasted black dress and the woman wearing a gray hoodie and a red cap. After all, this is a “man’s paradise. When our eyes meet, she smiles and waves at me, just like the women I saw last night. I know it is a sales smile, but it makes me happy.

I know it’s a sales smile, but it makes me happy. We just arrived. She’s the only one here. She’ s a good girl, so please play with her. In Matsushima Shinchi, the ladies are generally young. There are elderly ladies on the back streets, but the ladies on the main street look much younger.

A little past 11:00 a.m., an auntie is spraying water with a hose in front of the entrance of a ryotei restaurant. Now, a day at the ryotei restaurant is about to begin. A tall white couple wearing sunglasses walks down the street. The man is wearing a T-shirt and shorts, and the woman is wearing a colorful light one-piece dress. It is already summer.

It was the first midsummer day of the year. After checking out the new area in the sweltering heat, I realized that Matsushima Shinchi is “attractive in that it is not fully transformed into a theme park. It is fun because it is inconvenient. The fact that the “half-untouched colorful town” that is a fusion of the city and the jungle still remains is a joy to behold. During the upcoming Osaka-Kansai Expo, the area is sure to be crowded with “adventure-loving” men from all over the world.