Guriko

The picture above shows "Takoyaki", the famous delicacy of octopus balls from Osaka. It is really an exciting city. There are many places for visitors to tour and sightsee, and delicious food to enjoy as well.


Dotonburi - This is also another famous tourist spot, so famous in fact that you will find pictures about Osaka filled with the image of the running Glico man. Here we call it the "Guriko man". This is taken near the bridge.


A night shot of this place :

Some may find this similar to CHIEMSEE, a brand of a sportswear company, but it actually is not!


Ezaki Glico is a Japanese confectionery company headquartered in Osaka. The company manufactures the traditional Glico caramel candy, as well as Pocky (also known as Mikado in Europe), and many others. The company name, Glico, is derived from a shortening of the word glycogen. The first candy produced by the company was known as Glico-Caramel.


The Glico 300 meter running man trademark is also derived from the original caramel candy: the candy is 15.4kcal, which is enough energy to run exactly 300 meters. (Calculated from the formula that for a person 165 centimeters in height, weighing 55 kilograms, an 160 meter run over the period of one minute will burn 8.21 calories. Over the period of 1.88 minutes they should be able to run 300 meters and burn 15.4kcal).


If you ever have the chance to come to Japan, please try Pocky, we have many variations of it!