Maybe it's not that people are getting bored of their figures, it's that fewer people are getting into kits? I know I have the hand-eye coordination of a two year old, so I avoid kits like the plague @_@
I liked Osaka when I visited (very, very briefly)-- we stayed in a hostel at Nagai Kouen, which was a really neat park. We really enjoyed the people who hung around...kids on field trips, guys doing bike tricks, etc. But if I was going to pick a plac...