Kameranokitamura Higashiosaka Ishikiriten

I used their service to develop photos from my smartphone, and the photo selection process was excellent and easy to use. The price was also reasonable, so I'm very satisfied.

June 16, 2025 From my home, I walked along the side road near Ishikiri Shrine to the nearest Camera Kitamura store. My mother was overjoyed to temporarily look after a neighbor's dog, whom she cherishes very much, for two hours. Our home is in a rented apartment building, so keeping pets is not permitted. Therefore, this was strictly a temporary arrangement. Since he never barks normally, and I was worried about him getting hurt, I invited him to my home with a leash on, but I carried him. When he saw my mother's face, she called out, "○○-chan!" When my mother called him, he immediately ran towards her, his tiny, adorable tail wagging so hard I thought it might fall off, and he jumped onto her. 🍀 After a while (naturally), he realized that this wasn't his home. He walked around every corner of our house, including my mother's bed, my bed, the sink, and even the small TV in my room—places where he was worried he might not fit—to check if it was safe. He then rolled around on my mother's stomach again, and licked my face all over (lol). I'm truly overwhelmed with emotion 😚 I took several photos of my daughter with her mother, and when I printed them out at a convenience store, there were lots of adorable pictures of her looking directly at the camera. That alone was precious and I'm so grateful, but my mother said, "Honestly, I'd like to get rid of my messy hair and just have pictures of my daughter alone." So I thought about it overnight, "Maybe Camera Kitamura can do it?" I asked a store employee, and they said, "We can do it, but photo editing will cost 5250 yen 😳" I was devastated... I thought I'd have to make my mother give up on that, but "There must be a free app to combine photos on a smartphone 🐦" I searched for apps on Google. I thanked Camera Kitamura and left the store, then went to the rest area of ​​a nearby Mandai supermarket to look up photo editing apps. There were lots of photo editing apps available 🐦 I used the clover park at Ikukunitama Shrine as the background, and then used the AI ​​editing function to cut out the crucial photo of [child's name]. One photo of my mother's friend's dog was edited perfectly, with the background neatly removed and successfully composited. However, the photo of the dog my mother was temporarily looking after wouldn't have its background neatly removed even with AI editing. There was an eraser function, so I painstakingly used it to remove the background and finally managed to composite it with the clover field 🍀 When I finished and checked the time, it was 8 PM. I hurried home, but my mother almost filed a missing person report because I hadn't returned. (It was my fault for not telling her where I was going 🙇) Regardless of the reason, I successfully developed the edited photo at a convenience store and brought it home. My mother completely forgot about my worries and happily gazed at the edited photo for a while. My smartphone was manufactured in 2020, but it's still working hard for me. The next day, when I showed the edited photos to Camera Kitamura, the staff member praised me, saying, "Wow, this is really well done! 🕵️ It must have been a lot of work!" I laughed, and bought two photo frames before leaving the store. My mother showed the edited photos to the person who had kindly allowed her to temporarily look after them, and said, "These are beautiful photos. I'll cherish them." That person apparently said, "I'd like to have these photos too," to which my mother replied, "Of course," and then went home. Fortunately, I had saved the photos to Google Photos' cloud storage, so I was able to print them out immediately. I bought a photo frame at Camera Kitamura and, on behalf of my mother who has difficulty walking, I delivered them to the owner. I apologized, saying, "I'm so sorry for taking these photos without permission." The owner responded with kind words: "She's an indoor dog and only goes for short walks at night, so this is the first time I've seen [dog's name] in such a beautiful clover field. I'm so happy." If there is such a thing as a "past life" (of course, I have no idea whether it exists or not), I wondered if my mother might have been a "dog" in her past life. My mother (79) also has her own struggles with life after surgery and various physical ailments (numbness in her hands and legs, difficulty walking even with a cane, etc.), and I imagine she experiences considerable hardship in her daily life. However, ever since my mother came to Osaka from a small island in Shikoku, I'm truly grateful every day for the support we receive from so many people in this area who know each other through both happy and difficult times. And, since my mother (79) is also human, I can't help but imagine that when she faces the end of her life, she will be guided by these two (I'll call them that for lack of a better word) with peace of mind, without any anxiety, like the guardian lions at Ikukunitama Shrine. Thank you so much, Camera Kitamura, even though I didn't develop the photos. I can look at these happy photos at home every day thanks to Camera Kitamura. Thank you 🐦

When I was having trouble printing data, the store manager was very helpful and helped me out. I was very satisfied with the result.

I desperately needed to develop photos stored on my old flip phone, but I couldn't move them to an SD card, which was a problem. However, a store employee kindly showed me how to use the infrared self-developing machine, and I was able to develop the photos successfully.

It's not a very large store, but there are many staff members who are knowledgeable about cameras, and it has the atmosphere of an old neighborhood camera shop, which is different from the large stores in the city center.