# Osaka Dining Compass — 200 hand-picked restaurants

> 200 hand-picked restaurants (iPhone/iPad app by Kentaro Iwata.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/osaka-dining-compass/id6798479132 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Kentaro Iwata](https://appshunter.io/developer/6791867928)
- Category: Travel, Food & Drink
- Price: Free (on sale, was $2.99)
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 328 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), Korean, Chinese (Simplified, China), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-08-13
- Data updated: 2026-09-03
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/osaka-dining-compass/id6798479132/reviews.md

## What is Osaka Dining Compass?

Two hundred restaurants. That's the whole list.

Osaka has tens of thousands of places to eat. This app leaves nearly all of them out.

Osaka Dining Compass is not trying to cover the city. It's doing the opposite. Our editors went through them one at a time and kept only the places we could give you a reason for. What survived is these 200.

WE GAVE UP ON BEING COMPREHENSIVE
Search and you'll get thousands of results. But the more options you have, the harder it gets to commit. You compare forty reviews, squint at photos, and it's suddenly 8pm with nowhere booked. The only way to kill that hour was to put fewer places in.

There is not a single restaurant in here that exists just to pad the list.

EVERY ENTRY SAYS WHY IT MADE THE CUT
A star rating is somebody else's average. Instead, every listing carries the story of the restaurant and a specific editor's note on what makes it worth your evening.

- What the place actually cares about
- What you should be going there to eat
- What kind of evening you'll have

Food, atmosphere, and value are rated separately. Not "4.2 overall" but "the food is beyond question, the bill runs high." You know what to expect, and what not to, before you walk in.

ALL THAT'S LEFT IS TONIGHT'S MOOD
- Filter by area, cuisine, budget, and mood
- Sort by distance from where you are
- Switch between map and list as you compare
- Bookmark anything that catches your eye

The shortlist is already made. Just pick from it.

SO YOU ACTUALLY GET THERE, AND ACTUALLY EAT WELL
The rest of the app exists so that one carefully chosen meal doesn't fall apart on the way.

- Sights: what to look for, the history, the details you'd walk past
- A day's itinerary built from the places you pick
- Station-to-station routes
- Point-and-show cards for dietary needs and seating requests
- Menu decoder, emergency numbers, how IC cards work

But the 200 are the point. Everything else is there to get you to them.

You only get so many meals in Osaka. This was built so you don't waste one.

Illustrations are stylized and are not photographs of the actual restaurants or venues. Please check each venue's official website for current hours and closures. Travel times are estimates.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1 — 2026-09-02

Minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-13

No release notes.

## More apps by Kentaro Iwata

- [Kyoto Dining Compass](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kyoto-dining-compass/id6791867926)
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