Tour guide explains why he never recommends Osaka. #osaka #japantravel #traveltips #traveljapan

Tour guide explains why he never recommends Osaka. #osaka #japantravel #traveltips #traveljapan

I’ve been spit on in Osaka. No way. Don’t worry. Yeah. Changing my camera lens. I put my bag down. I made sure I was not in front of the door of a building. I made sure I was not on a on the road cuz cars come down this walking street and there was a vending machine. And I made sure that there was still space for someone to use the vending machine. I I’m always very mindful, right? And uh I open my bag to change my camera lens cuz I was going to take photos for a customer. And uh this guy comes over and he’s like, “Leave now. Leave now.” And he starts raising his voice every time. And then he spits at me with his gum. And I’m just I just look at him. Did you have like customers? Yeah, I had like three customers with And then I just like cuz I’m like crouched down, right? And he’s like standing over top of me. He’s like missing a bunch of teeth and stuff. So I just I slowly continue what I’m doing. I just like ignore him. My whole thought was like I know the neighborhood. The bar scene always has the rougher crowd, right? like the late night people usually can have gang association and stuff like that. And for him to in public around like a hundred other people yell at me and spit on me just told me like any reaction would result in me probably having more issues than him in terms of like him having friends around course even if police came then it would be like oh like the the foreigners the issue you know so I was just like okay guys like let’s just go. That was before I was even here a year and immediately you ruined Osaka for the rest of my life. And now they if I don’t always tell the story because I don’t want people to have that image. I love going to Osaka for tourism. It has some great spots to see. But now I also think of like it doesn’t feel as safe. It doesn’t feel as welcoming. Right. I would recommend a hundred other places before I would say go to a