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by Consultant32452 2443 days ago
Someone may have a better answer, but I did a google search for worst parts of Osaka. I got Kabikucho as an answer:

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.6960715,139.7029924,3a,75y,2...

We can compare that to a random spot in skid row, LA.

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0413292,-118.2437281,3a,75y,...

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Well Kabikucho is in Tokyo haha. It gets really bad every night and they clean it up in the mid morning. At around 7am it's shocking how dirty it is; a complete mind blower compared to how clean you get used to everything being.
Well, this is supposedly Osaka's "dirty" place:

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6687543,135.5013888,2a,75y,3...

Ah hah, 3 cigarettes at the man's feet: https://goo.gl/maps/nXUmRVou6wV86RJMA
To their defense, they're on a grill -- just didn't manage to fall through!

(Now let's compare with the sorry state a lot of European cities are in)