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大阪府 · Art & museums

Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum

東大阪市南河内

The writer's study left as it was, beside an eleven-metre wall of his own 20,000 books, built by Tadao Ando.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Imashirozuka Kofun

高槻市北摂

Thought to be an emperor's tomb; the ritual platform of house, human and animal figures was excavated and rebuilt in place.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Kuboso Memorial Museum

和泉市泉州

Founded on a cotton family's gift; its celadon vase and Heian manuscript are both National Treasures.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Kishiwada Danjiri Festival

岸和田市泉州

Four-tonne carts run at full speed and turned square at the corners, their zelkova bodies carved over every surface.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Open-Air Museum of Old Japanese Farmhouses

豊中市北摂

Japan's first open-air architecture museum, comparing farmhouse types from every region on one site.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Modern Architecture of Nakanoshima

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A sandbar between two rivers dense with public buildings from Meiji to Showa - water and architecture forming the city's spine.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Semba Modern Buildings

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Small 1920s and 30s office blocks in the merchant quarter, faced in Art Deco and even Mayan-revival ornament.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Karahori District

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A quarter spared by the bombing, its wooden row houses and alleys now being converted into shops and galleries.

大阪府 · Art & museums

National Bunraku Theatre

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Home of the puppet theatre born in Osaka; each head is carved by a specialist and repaired down the generations.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Bridges of Osaka

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A city of canals and bridges, many of them built at merchants' own expense - their names still carry those origins.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Incense of Sakai

堺市泉州

Incense making began where the aromatic woods landed; blending and forming are still separate trades.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Hirakata-juku

枚方市北摂

Where the river traffic met the highway; the old boatmen's inn survives as a museum.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Garden Suburbs of Ikeda

池田市北摂

Japan's first estate of houses sold to commuters - the model on which railway companies built the suburbs.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Kishiwada Castle

岸和田市泉州

Shigemori Mirei laid a dry garden in the keep's yard, its stones arranged as the battle formations of a Chinese strategist.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group

堺市泉州

Forty-nine tombs across two plateaus; that the keyhole shape held for over two centuries shows how tightly form was controlled.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Keitakuen Garden

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By Ogawa Jihei, who defined the modern Japanese garden - hidden behind the city art museum.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Shopfront Design of Osaka

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Giant three-dimensional signs - a crab, a pufferfish, an octopus - built out over the street as the city's own visual idiom.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Osaka Aquarium and Modern Architecture

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Visitors spiral downward past the tanks - a building where the route itself decides the order of what you see.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Otsuki Noh Theatre

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An early example of a full Noh stage built indoors, bridge and painted pine and all.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Mint Cherry Blossom Walk

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The Mint opens its grounds for one week a year, one-way, past 130 varieties of cherry planted in sequence.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Small Factories of Osaka

東大阪市南河内

Thousands of tiny workshops packed together, their division of labour working as if it were one large factory.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Kawachi Cotton

八尾市南河内

Thick cotton from the flood plain, tough enough for sailcloth and working clothes.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art

神戸市阪神・神戸

Built as a symbol of recovery from the 1995 earthquake; Ando's stairs and cylinders make walking the building the experience.

兵庫県 · Art & museums

Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art

神戸市阪神・神戸

Three thousand works by an artist who moved from graphics to painting, and who redraws the same subject again and again.