Osaka 🇯🇵
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Loud, warm, and built around eating.
Neighbourhoods
A city is too big to plan an evening around
Landmarks in Osaka
The ones worth the crowd
Dotonbori
The canal with the running man and the mechanical crab.
Osaka Castle
A reconstructed keep on genuinely enormous stone walls.
Umeda Sky Building
Two towers joined by a hole in the sky.
HEP Five Ferris Wheel
A red wheel bolted to the roof of a shopping mall.
Abeno Harukas
Japan’s tallest building, at three hundred metres.
Osaka Aquarium Kaiyūkan
You walk down around one enormous tank.
Food in Osaka
Markets, counters and late kitchens
Kuromon Ichiba Market
Six hundred metres of grilled scallops and knife shops.
Hōzenji Yokochō
A stone alley of old kitchens, a block from the neon.
Fukushima Izakaya Alleys
One stop from Umeda, and where Osaka actually drinks.
Tsuruhashi Korea Town
The oldest Korean quarter in Japan, and it smells like it.
Jan Jan Yokochō
A narrow arcade of kushikatsu counters and shogi parlours.
Culture in Osaka
Shrines, palaces and quiet rooms
Shinsekai & Tsūtenkaku
A 1912 vision of the future, preserved by neglect.
Ohatsu Tenjin Shrine
A shrine to a famous double suicide, behind the bars.
Nakanoshima Park
A sandbank between two rivers, all park.
Nakanoshima Museum of Art
A matte black cube on stilts, opened in 2022.
Osaka Tenmangū
The shrine behind Osaka’s biggest festival.
Namba Yasaka Shrine
A twelve-metre lion head with a stage in its mouth.
Cafés in Osaka
Long sits and good coffee
Shopping in Osaka
Vintage, design and everything odd
Amerikamura
Osaka's streetwear quarter, loud and secondhand.
Tenjinbashisuji Shōtengai
Two and a half kilometres of covered shopping street.
Shinsaibashi-suji
Six hundred metres of roofed high street into Dōtonbori.
Orange Street, Horie
Furniture showrooms turned into the calm shopping street.
Namba Parks
A canyon of shops with eight floors of garden on top.
Anime in Osaka
Frames you can stand inside
Quieter corners of Osaka
11 places most visitors walk past