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• Abeno Harukas Three hundred metres of tower, and sixteen of its floors are the largest shop in Japan.
• Chikatsu-Asuka Museum The roof is a flight of steps, and you can walk on it: the museum is by Andō Tadao.
• Daisen Park Japanese Garden Two and a half hectares of stroll garden squeezed between two imperial tombs.
• Dōmyōji Tenmangū Eight hundred plum trees of eighty varieties, in bloom between mid-February and early March.
• Dōtonbori (道頓堀) The canal is named after Yasui Dōton, who had it dug in 1612 for urban development.
• Hankyu Umeda Main Store (阪急うめだ本店) Opened in 1929, it was the world's first department store built inside a station.
• Hozenji Yokocho Eighty metres of alley, three wide, and a Fudō green with moss from the water thrown over it.
• Inunakiyama Onsen The inns are at the mouth of a valley where some people stand under the waterfall.
• Janjan Yokochō A hundred and thirty metres of alley with some fifty counters serving skewers and stew.
• Kaiyūkan You go up to the eighth floor and come down in a spiral around a tank nine metres deep.
• Kanshin-ji The main statue can be seen two days a year: 17 and 18 April, and that is all.
• Karahori Eight hundred metres along the castle's dry moat, with the nagaya still standing.
• Katsuō-ji Eighty thousand tsubo of mountain, and victory daruma are placed everywhere.
• Keitakuen It was the Sumitomo family's garden: they gave it to the city in 1926.
• Kishiki Shrine On the big day of the danjiri the floats come in here, from nine until half past twelve.
• Kishiwada Castle The 1953 dry landscape garden was designed to be looked at from the top of the keep.
• Kuromon Market 580 metres of arcade and 150 stalls; the name comes from a black gate that no longer exists.
• Mausoleum of Emperor Nintoku 486 metres of mound and three moats, and from the ground you cannot see its shape.
• Mausoleum of Emperor Ōjin It is not the longest in Japan, but it is the one that required the most earth to be moved.
• Minoo Falls The fried maple leaves spend a year in salt before they go into the oil.
• Miyukidōri, Osaka's Korea Three hundred metres and a hundred and fifty shops: it is the largest Korea in Japan.
• Mizuma-dera The white-haired old man put the statue in his hands and went off as a dragon.
• Museum of Yayoi Culture It is the only museum in Japan devoted solely to the Yayoi period, and it stands on the excavation site.
• Nakanoshima Library It dates from 1904 and still lends books: a Sumitomo paid for it out of his own pocket.
• Namba Parks (なんばパークス) Roof garden from the 2nd to the 9th floor: 11,500 m², among the 10 most beautiful rooftops in the world.
• Osaka Castle The keep is from 1931, paid for by the city's residents: the third after the Toyotomi and Tokugawa keeps.
• Osaka Central Gymnasium (大阪市中央体育館) Underground venue in Minato Ward, at Tanaka 3-1-40, now renamed Asue Arena Osaka, a short walk from Asashiobashi Station on the metro's…
• Osaka Central Public Hall A private citizen paid for it out of his own pocket in 1913; you can walk round the basement for free.
• Osaka Museum of Housing and Living On the ninth floor there is a late Edo Osaka street, rebuilt at full size.
• Osaka Tenmangū On 24 and 25 July the boats of the Tenjin Matsuri set out from here, with fireworks overhead.
• Peace Osaka - Osaka International Peace Center (大阪国際平和センター ピースおおさか) The names of 9,171 victims of the bombings of Osaka are inscribed in the ‘Garden of Time’.
• Sakai Denshō-kan A knife passes through three workshops: the one that forges it, the one that sharpens it, the one that fits its handle.
• Sakai Rishō no Mori There is a copy of Rikyū's Taian that you can step inside, not one you look at from outside.
• Shinsaibashi-suji (心斎橋筋商店街) It began around 1600 as a street between the Shinmachi neighbourhood and the theatres of Dōtonbori.
• Shitennō-ji Gate, pagoda, golden hall and preaching hall stand on a single line, from south to north.
• Sumiyoshi Taisha Three halls in a row and the fourth beside them: no other shrine is laid out like this.
• Tempozan Ferris Wheel (天保山大観覧車) 112.5 metres: it was among the largest wheels in the world when it opened, and a ride lasts 15 minutes.
• Tenjinbashisuji 2.6 km and about 800 shops: forty minutes of walking under a single roof.
• Tenpōzan Four metres fifty-three, and at the top there is a real triangulation point.
• Tondabayashi Jinaimachi The only protected district in the whole of Osaka: 12.9 hectares, and people still live there.
• Tower of the Sun It has been a national cultural property since 27 August 2025, fifty-five years after the Expo.
• Tsūtenkaku At the top, you rub the soles of the Billiken statue's feet for luck.
• Umeda Sky Building (梅田スカイビル) The two towers, completed in 1993, are joined at the top by a suspended glass escalator.
• Universal Studios Japan (ユニバーサル・スタジオ・ジャパン) In 2021 it opened the world's first Super Nintendo World, with real Warp Pipes.
• Ura-Namba (ウラなんば) Born in 2010 with a handful of independent venues: today it has about a hundred.

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