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大阪府 · Tourism

Sakai Cutlery

堺市泉州

The skills of gunsmiths turned to kitchen knives. Most professional cooks use them.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts

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On the site of the Sumitomo residence, with holdings of Chinese painting and stone Buddhas among the best in Japan.

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Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka

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Forty years from conception to opening; a black box hollowed out at its centre, with the galleries hung in the void.

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National Museum of Art, Osaka

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Every gallery is underground; above ground stands only a steel facade, the building itself invisible.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka

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Held to be the world's finest collection of Chinese and Korean ceramics, shown in cases lit by daylight so the celadon reads true.

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Fujita Museum

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Fujita Denzaburo bought up treasures scattered when Meiji Japan turned on Buddhism; his Yohen Tenmoku is one of only three.

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Yuki Museum of Art

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Tea utensils gathered by the founder of the Kitcho restaurants - vessels chosen by a cook's eye.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Osaka Museum of History

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Palace foundations preserved in the basement, the throne hall rebuilt full size on the tenth floor - 1,300 years stacked vertically.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Osaka Museum of Housing and Living

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A whole block of 1830s Osaka rebuilt full size under an artificial sky that cycles from dawn to night.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Osaka Castle

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Rebuilt in 1931 entirely by public subscription; the reconstruction is now itself a registered cultural property.

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.

大阪府 · Art & museums

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.

大阪府 · Art & museums

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.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Nakanoshima Library

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

大阪府 · Art & museums

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.

大阪府 · Art & museums

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.

大阪府 · Art & museums

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.

大阪府 · Art & museums

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.

大阪府 · Art & museums

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.

大阪府 · Art & museums

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.

大阪府 · Art & museums

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.

大阪府 · Art & museums

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.