The level of the main street is second to none in Tobita Shinchi…Inbound visitors are also eager to visit…A Thorough Guide to Matsushima Shinchi, Osaka

If Tobita Shinchi is a “well-developed urban park,” Matsushima Shinchi is like a “natural park full of natural wildness. While Tobita-shinchi is a “well-designed entertainment district that looks like something out of a movie,” Matsushima-shinchi is more like a “back-alley entertainment district that is an extension of everyday life. It is also like “a maze where you cannot find the exit because there is no map,” and “a dungeon where it is difficult to escape because it is hard to get a bird’s eye view of the path. The atmosphere of Matsushima Shinchi is different from that of Tobita Shinchi, which is also located in Osaka City, and is wild and wild.

Basic information about Matsushima Shinchi: history, geography, prices, and how to play

Matsushima Shinchi is the second largest ryotei district in Osaka after Tobita Shinchi, with about 80 restaurants. Tobita-shinchi has about 160 restaurants, which is half the size of Matsushima-shinchi. Stores are scattered over a wide area in the area of Kujo 1-chome and Honden 2-chome, Nishi-ku, Osaka City. The “front street,” Main Street and Matsumoto Street, can be divided into six areas : Main Street, Matsumoto Street, Station and Post Office Area, Main Rear Area, Shrine Rear Street, and Honda Area. The other four areas are so-called “red-light districts. The other four areas are so-called “back streets” and are said to have a slightly lower level of women than the front streets. 15 minutes is enough time to tour the entire town.

The “main street” runs from Chuo Boulevard, under the elevated Hanshin Expressway Route 16 Osaka Port Line, to the back of Ibarasu Sumiyoshi Shrine, facing Minato Street, which runs east-west through Osaka City. It is the most heavily trafficked street in Matsushima Shinchi.

Matsumotokiyodori runs north-northeast from the Matsumotokiyoshi drugstore in the Kujo Nine Mall shopping arcade in the south of the Shinchi district, and there are about a dozen restaurants in a 100 meter radius.

The “Ekichika Post Office Area” is close to Kujo Station on the Osaka Metro Chuo Line, and is the first area that visitors coming by train will see. There are more than a dozen restaurants near the Osaka Kujo Post Office, which is also called “Post Office Backstreet.

The “main back area” is an alley on the east side of Matsukyo Street, with less than 10 ryotei restaurants on both sides of the narrow street.

The ” Shrine Back Street” is a street behind the Ibaraki Sumiyoshi Shrine, where about four ryotei restaurants are located.

The ” Honda area” is on the north side of the road that crosses in front of the Matsushima Shinchi Cuisine Association (commonly known as “Cuisine Association Street” or “Association Mae Street”), and is dotted with about 16 ryotei restaurants. It is sometimes referred to as the “O-no-ji intersection area” or “Factory Street.

The system is to look around the ryotei where women are showing their faces, and if you find one you like, you can go up to the restaurant. The customers can choose a girl after seeing her in person, which makes them feel more secure in their decision. In Tobita-shinchi, one person sits in one store, but in Matsushima-shinchi, two or three people sit together in many stores and show their faces at the same time. Depending on the restaurant and the time of day, one person may be showing his/her face.

Ryotei restaurants begin to open in pockets around 10 to 11 a.m., and most of them open by 3 to 5 p.m. The evening is the busiest time of the day. It is not until around 6:00 p.m. in the evening that the place becomes fully crowded. You can play if you enter before 23:59.

Prices range from 13,000 yen for 20 minutes to 18,000 yen for 30 minutes, rising 5,000 yen in 10-minute increments up to a 60-minute course. On the main street, the 30-minute course is the minimum, but some restaurants offer a 20-minute course. The 20- and 30-minute courses cost 3,000 yen less than in Tobita Shinchi. Because of the reasonable prices, 70 to 80% of the customers play the 20- or 30-minute courses.