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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.

大阪府 · Art & museums

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.

大阪府 · Art & museums

Sakai Rishonomori

堺市泉州

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

大阪府 · Art & museums

Sakai Blades

堺市泉州

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

大阪府 · Art & museums

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.

大阪府 · Art & museums

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.

大阪府 · Art & museums

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.

大阪府 · Art & museums

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.

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

大阪市大阪市

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

大阪市大阪市

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

大阪市大阪市

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

大阪市大阪市

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

大阪市大阪市

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.