Since the Doyama area is a wee bit challenging to find, I offer the following information, taken from the Utopia website:

"Instructions to the Doyama-cho gay nightlife area: from the Hankyu Umeda train platform, take the main exit (head in the same direction that all trains enter the station). Take the escalators down to the bustling street level passageway and turn LEFT and exit the station. You will be facing a 1-story shopping complex called EST1, built under the train tracks. Cross the street and take the alleyway between EST1 and the large HEP Five shopping centre (with the huge red ferris wheel on the roof). Go down this alley 2 blocks and it ends at the main street. Turn right and walk to the traffic light. Turn left and cross the main avenue. When you reach the other side turn right immediately and cross the smaller road. You are now at Doyama-cho, a maze of late night bars and restaurants. Before entering, turn left at this corner and walk to the first alleyway and turn right. Take this alley straight ahead. Pass the first intersection which is the covered arcade lane. At the next intersection you could turn right to go to Explosion and Physique, or keep going straight ahead and on the right is Coco love hotel. Go one more block straight ahead and Hokuoukan sauna is on the next corner on your left. Explore the lanes in this immediate vicnity for many of the bars mentioned below, which advertise their names on rows of small signs that rise vertically on building exteriors."

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