Osaka is a Japanese big city, the third biggest after
Tokyo and Yokohama. (For a long
time Osaka used to be the second biggest.) Osaka locates mouth of the rivers that go through Kyoto, the old capital of
Japan locating inland, thus Osaka became important trade, merchant, industrial city.
Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe are close each other and they consist hubs in Kansai region. They have distinctive dialect slightly differ from standard Japanese but that is cherished in
Japan.
Osaka is also famous with various inexpensive foods and comedies.