monkeygod

@vgadjo - thanks for the quick response!

yeah i wish i had time to hit okayama but i've been committed to more 'cultural' sightseeing by the family *sigh* The Samurai shop was closed today otherwise I would have dropped in, although I'm a bit confused between the official shop and the 'head office' in Osaka. Not sure if you have the be a Samurai Jeans club member to purchase from the head office as they seem to stock mainly limited editions!

will try and drop into Hinoya and check them out. As far as I know Skull jeans are still around as I saw several shops around stocking them (not my taste though!)

hey all,

posted a similar question in the superdenim forum earlier but it got moved to the neglected general osaka thread in superjetset

i'm in Osaka RIGHT NOW but only for a couple more days and would love to pick up some denim where i can try out the cuts/sizes. Momotaros are high on my list and I was wondering if anyone could recommend a brick and mortar store in town which I could hit?

Based on some outdated guides I checked out BIG STEP mall in Amerikamura but it seems to have been taken over by mainly Visual-Kei style clothing stores and the Denim Factory is now a used clothing store which only sells 'Rodeo Uncle' and used LVCs. Also traipsed out to Kita to visit Organic Blue which sells a lot of Momo's through Rakuten but they had quite a limited selection and nothing I liked in my size (36w).

any help greatly appreciated, but I need it ASAP or I'll have missed out on this opportunity!

hey all,

headed to Osaka for a short vacation with family and didn't want to pass up the chance to acquire some local goodies. Does anyone have recommendations on what stores to hit? I know Samurai and SDA both have shops in the city but are they hard to find from the downtown area?

also - i'm assuming that the average Japanese store clerk won't have much in the way English language skills, so does anyone know what key phrases in Japanese I should try and memorize? e.g. what are the japanese terms for 'selvage', 'unsanforized', 'smaller/larger size', etc.

any assistance much appreciated !