However, in addition to leading the nation in nearly every crime category, there is one area where the city takes a back seat to no one: Osaka is not just on the cutting edge of the pink industry it is the cutting edge. And, to be honest, Osaka is a grimy industrial city with virtually no parks and little in the way of tourism. Worse still, in western Japan, Osaka is sandwiched between the elegant port city Kobe and, to the north, Kyoto, Japan’s cultural and artistic center. Osakans reflexively, defensively compare themselves to Tokyo and Tokyoites people in Tokyo would be hard pressed to say one positive thing about Osaka, if they think about it at all. Everything in Tokyo is bigger, better, and more chic.
