串かつ松葉 エキマルシェ大阪ウメスト店 at Umeda, Osaka

A casual branch of the 1948 Umeda kushikatsu institution, with standing and seated skewer-picking steps from Osaka Station.

Kushikatsu Matsuba is the Umeda-born skewer-frying house founded back in 1948, and its Ekimarushie Osaka UMEST branch carries that seventy-plus-year heritage into a relaxed, station-side setting. The shop is known for its standing and counter-seated style, where fresh-fried kushikatsu is laid out continuously on the counter and you simply take whichever skewers catch your eye, paying by stick. The signature is the young chicken skewer - curry-seasoned and dressed with Matsuba's secret sweet-savoury sauce - alongside the perennially popular beef skewer, with seasonal and limited-quantity specials rotating through the counter. Both standing and proper chair seating are available, so the shop works equally well for a solo traveler grabbing a quick bite, friends gathering after work, or a family refuelling between errands, and takeout and eat-in are both offered. The UMEST branch deliberately softens the famously no-nonsense standing-only style of the head shop, making it more approachable for first-timers, while keeping the Osaka soul of the original. It sits just outside the Osaka Station west ticket gates, so a quick skewer or two slots neatly between trains. When you want a true Osaka bite with the city's friendliest welcome, Matsuba's UMEST branch is a perfect stop. Let Go Umeda walk you to the counter, pick a few golden skewers, and toast the town the way Umeda has for seventy years.