These terms cover your use of Osaka Tourism Guide (www.osakatourism.org). They are meant to be read, so they are written in plain language rather than in the longest form a lawyer could manage. Last updated 10 September 2026.
What this site is
Osaka Tourism Guide is an independent editorial site publishing travel guides about Osaka and the wider Kansai region. It is not a travel agency, a tour operator or a booking service. It sells nothing, takes no reservations, and has no commercial relationship with the hotels, restaurants, museums and attractions it writes about beyond the affiliate arrangement described below.
Accuracy, and the limits of it
Guides are researched carefully and re-checked against operators’ own information, and pages that cover changeable details carry the date they were last verified. Even so, this is a published guide and not a live feed. Opening hours change, restaurants close, fares rise in April, festivals move, and attractions rework their ticketing without notice.
Nothing here is a guarantee that a place will be open, that a price is current, or that a service still runs. Before you travel, spend money or rely on a detail, check it with the business or operator concerned. If you find something out of date, please tell us through the contact page.
Not professional advice
Nothing on this site is legal, financial, medical, immigration or insurance advice. Guidance about visas, customs rules, tax-free shopping, health requirements or travel insurance is general background written for a general audience, and your circumstances may differ. Consult the relevant official body or a qualified professional for anything that matters.
Your own safety and judgement
Travel involves risk and you remain responsible for your own decisions. Japan has a typhoon season, serious summer heat, earthquakes and occasional transport suspensions, and any of those can change a plan at short notice. Follow official warnings and the instructions of local authorities and operators, take out appropriate travel insurance, and use your own judgement about what is sensible for you.
Links to other sites
This site links out constantly, because checking a price or booking with the provider directly is usually the right thing to do. Those sites are not under our control. A link is not an endorsement of the site’s content, security or business practices, and once you follow one you are subject to that site’s own terms and privacy policy.
Affiliate links
Some accommodation and activity links earn a commission if you book through them, at no additional cost to you. Any contract you enter into is between you and the provider or booking site — not with Osaka Tourism Guide, which is not a party to it and cannot amend, cancel or refund it. Full detail is on the affiliate disclosure page.
Copyright
The text of the guides is original to this site and remains its property. You are welcome to quote a short passage with a clear link back. You may not republish whole guides, or substantial parts of them, in any medium, and you may not use this site’s content to train machine learning models without permission.
Photographs and other images may be licensed from third parties or used under their own licence terms, and permission to reuse the text does not extend to them. If you want to use something, ask through the contact page.
Acceptable use
Please do not attempt to disrupt the site, probe it for vulnerabilities, scrape it at a rate that degrades it for other readers, or use it for anything unlawful.
Liability
The site is provided as it is. To the fullest extent the law allows, Osaka Tourism Guide is not liable for loss or damage arising from reliance on anything published here, from a detail that has changed since it was checked, or from any dealing you have with a third party found through this site. Nothing in these terms limits liability where it cannot lawfully be limited.
Availability
There is no promise that the site will be available uninterrupted. Pages may be changed, moved or withdrawn at any time without notice.
Privacy
How the site handles data is set out in the privacy policy, with the individual cookies listed on the cookie policy page.
Changes and contact
These terms are updated when the site changes, and the date at the top shows when that last happened. Continuing to use the site means accepting the version then published. Questions about anything here go through the contact page.