Dotonbori
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Dotonbori (道頓堀) is a canal located in Osaka, Japan; best known for its surrounding theatres, shops, and restaurants. Above all else, the area is famous for its colourful signs, which advertise all of these. One of the best known landmarks in Dotonbori is Kanidoraku, which is a restaurant that specializes in crab dishes that sports a 30-foot crab-shaped sign. The pleasure district in the anime film is said to have been based off of Dotonbori.
Trivia
After the Hanshin Tigers baseball team's 1985 Japan Series win, fans celebrated by having people who looked like Tigers players jump into the Dotonbori. According to legend, because none of the fans resembled first baseman Randy Bass, fans grabbed a life-sized statue of Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot Colonel Sanders and threw it into the river (like Bass, the Colonel had a beard and was not Japanese). The statue was never recovered. The Tigers are therefore doomed to never win again until the Colonel is rescued from the river.
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