Jaunted Embedded Travel Guides: Osaka Can't Stop Shopping
Embedded Travel Guides: We are searching the world for folks who can take you on a field trip of their "backyard." When we find these folks, we then stealthy embed them into their local travel scene and ask them to be our eyes and ears out in the field.
We are expecting the same sort of grainy video, choppy sentences and snapshot photos that you are use to seeing from other sorts of embeds. At the end of the day we should be left with a backyard travel guidebook like no other.
Our man in Osaka is AJ McGuire, and, wow, does he have stories to tell.
I hate to traffic in stereotypes but it doesn't take much hanging around to figure out that the Japanese are pretty gung-ho Born to Shop. Name an object, and you can get the Louis Vuitton version somewhere in Osaka, customized, off the rack or knock off. Just like you can't go ten feet in this town without someone offering you some kind of prepared squid, there is literally nowhere without shopping.
Now I'm the kind of guy who wears the same dumb pair of jeans every day of the year so all this means very little to me. However, all trips involve the inevitable phase of collecting souvenirs to placate those you ditched back home for your trip. For them, I've picked out the three best ways to dump your tourist dollars into the Japanese economy.
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by Judson
