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大阪府 · Art & museums

Sumiyoshi Taisha

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A shrine form said to predate Buddhism's arrival: straight gables, four halls ranged toward the sea.

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Shitennoji

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Japan's oldest state temple; gate, pagoda and halls in a straight north-south line - the first plan of Japanese Buddhist architecture.

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Osaka City Central Public Hall

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Paid for by a single stockbroker; won in competition by Okada and detailed by Tatsuno, architect of Tokyo Station.

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Nakanoshima Library

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Given by the Sumitomo family: a stone temple front and a domed stairwell, still a working library.

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Osaka Club Mengyo Kaikan

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A club for the cotton trade where every room is in a different style, with interiors as fine as any in Japan.

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Osaka Gas Building

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A white building with rounded corners - one of the first arrivals of stripped modernism in Japanese commercial architecture.

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Tekijuku

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The Dutch-studies school where Fukuzawa Yukichi studied; students slept in one upstairs room and fought over the single dictionary.

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Tsutenkaku

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The first tower set an Eiffel on top of an Arc de Triomphe; the present one is by the engineer of Tokyo Tower.

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Itsuo Art Museum

池田市北摂

The collection of the man who built the Hankyu railway, holding the largest group of paintings by the haiku poet Buson.

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Kobayashi Ichizo Memorial Museum

池田市北摂

The house of the man who invented the Japanese commuter-line business model, and founded the Takarazuka Revue.

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Japan Folk Crafts Museum, Osaka

吹田市北摂

The folk-craft pavilion of Expo '70 kept as a museum, continuing Yanagi's collecting in western Japan.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Tower of the Sun

吹田市北摂

A 70-metre figure that burst through the Expo's great roof; the Tree of Life inside was sealed for 48 years and reopened in 2018.

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EXPO'70 Pavilion

吹田市北摂

Housed in the Expo's Steel Pavilion, an experiment in sound and light, and a record of the whole fair as a laboratory.

大阪府 · Art & museums

National Museum of Ethnology

吹田市北摂

Among the world's largest ethnology museums, arranged region by region without hierarchy - diversity of form as the exhibit.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Daisen Kofun

堺市泉州

Among the largest tombs on earth by mound length - an earthwork whose whole shape can only be seen from the air.

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Sakai City Museum

堺市泉州

Set among the burial mounds, and on how the free city of Sakai grew rich on guns and trade.

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Sakai Rishonomori

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On Sen no Rikyu and the poet Akiko Yosano, both born here; tea is served in a copy of Rikyu's own room.

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Sakai Blades

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Sakai mass-produced the first Japanese guns; that forging skill turned into knives, and most professional chefs' blades still come from here.

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Sakai Chusen Dyeing

堺市泉州

Dye poured through stencilled paste so it soaks clean through - the cloth comes out identical on both faces.

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Kanshinji

河内長野市南河内

Its six-armed Nyoirin Kannon, still bearing its original colour, is shown for just two days a year.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Kongoji

河内長野市南河内

Called the women's Koyasan because it admitted women pilgrims; its hall and three images are all National Treasures.

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Tondabayashi Jinaimachi

富田林市南河内

A self-governing town built around a temple, and the only preservation district in Osaka prefecture.

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Fujiidera

藤井寺市南河内

Most thousand-armed Kannon use 42 arms to stand for a thousand; this one actually has 1,041.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Domyoji Tenmangu

藤井寺市南河内

Objects said to be Michizane's own are National Treasures; the district was home to the clan that made the haniwa.