Osaka's Butt Pushing

My first thought on having my butt pushed for no reason: am I big? Not as round as this watermelon from one of Osaka's shopping arcades!

My least favorite Osaka experience save for busting my leg and the sometimes assumptive customer service was a lack of understanding of physical space which I am guessing came mostly from other foreigners.

In Osaka Castle, my butt was pushed by random passers by on no less than three occassions. It wasn't a grope and no one pressed themselves against me, but it was more contact than I wanted. No one stopped or apologized and there was nothing in my pockets to take, but it was really off putting.

I had to cut our castle tour a dash short because it was bothering me.

Later that day, in the middle of a barely populated street inside of Universal Studios Japan, it happened again!

I turned immediately to see the culprit -- a random white dude with a hip slung fanny pack, choosing to walk within inches of me rather than using the vast open walking spaces around me.

So maybe it was just foreigners who don't get personal space? 

Still, super uncomfortable and not something I've experienced in Miyagi or Tokyo or Nagoya or Gifu or Yamagata or anywhere else I've spent time in Japan, save for the one time I was sexually harassed on the Nagoya subway.