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Dotonbori Gokuraku Shoten-gai (Dotonbori Paradise Shopping Area) is a food theme park located on the 5th, 6th and 7th floors of Sammy EBISU Plaza constructed on the Naniwa-za theater site in July 2007.

You can fully enjoy TAKOYAKI (octopus balls), OKONOMIYAKI (Japanese-style hot-plate pizza) and other “foods” with Osaka taste; musicals or traditional performing arts played in the park every day and other “entertainment”. In this park filled with “warm human relationships”, the staff members, residents of the park, casually speak to you in Osaka dialect or have fun with you by playing games and so on.
This is “Dotonbori Gokuraku Shoten-gai”, one of the Japan’s biggest food theme parks chock-full of Osaka’s various charms.
 
 
This shopping zone covering three floors (approx. 2,970m2) reproduces good old downtown of from the end of Taisho era to the beginning of Showa era when Osaka was called “Dai-Osaka (Great Osaka)”.
There are about 40 distinctive shops on the retro-flavored floors.
You can see the laundry hung outside or dandelions at your feet. There are lots of loyalties to the old atmosphere here and there.
Why don’t you stroll through the nostalgic but fresh “Dai-Osaka” town?
 
 

Gokuraku Shoten-gai is a town, the staff members are its “inhabitants” and our guests are “neighbors” visiting this town.

In the theme park, the staff in clothes of the Taisho/Showa eras will speak to you casually, so you can actually feel “neighborly ties” or “warm human relationships” waning with the passage of time.
 
 

KUSHIKATU (skewered cutlets/vegetables), TAKOYAKI, OKONOMIYAKI and so on… Deep, typical and popular shops representing the Kansai area meet together.

All you have to do is to visit our Gokuraku Shoten-gai so that you can savor the authentic flavor of Osaka dishes at a time without eating your way from restaurant to restaurant in Osaka.

Additionally, we hand down vanishing menus and ingredients like “Kashimin-yaki (Crispy pancake with minced chicken and beef)” or crepes prepared from “Hattai-ko (Roasted and ground barley)”.