Namba Grand Kagetsu

Buying souvenir here is much better than watching comedy
I don’t know if you guys noticed, but Osaka is city of comedy as well. People visit Osaka for foods and Osaka castle, but if you watch local TV programs at your hotel, you’ll see many comedians showing up and saying funny things. Most of them are from Osaka and Kansai area, and this «Namba Grand Kagetsu» is the HQ of their activities. They all started from here, and became famous enough to be on TV shows.
Company called «Yoshimoto», who is the biggest comedian agency in Japan runs this place and right behind this building, they have HQ office. There, you can see many comedians going in and out, and young comedy freaks are waiting for them for autograph and so on.
One of the hardest things for you is «How do I understand Japanese comedy?» Yes, that’s right, it’s veeeeeery hard to understand it, because of the language barrier and cultural difference, also because of our strong Osaka accent. Talk to your Japanese friends and ask them the difference between people in Tokyo and Osaka. They may tell you «People in Osaka speaks really funny and their accent is so strong.»
But One thing I wanted to suggest to you is to try their souvenir shop inside the building. They have many goods they promote and even with a glance, I believe you start to feel like, «What’s this funny illustration?» and you finally get to buy them.
The other day, I was invited to an event in Kyoto and I brought a snack from this place. People there were saying «Hey Shuhei, this is the one that you get in Osaka, I can tell from package design! So funny! Hahaha!»
Unfortunately snack tasted terrible (Big laugh), but at least this souvenir contributed to our ice breaker. You wanna try some?

Funny! You can meet famous comedy actors from Yoshimoto-​creative agent here!