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Osaka Castle
Rebuilt in 1931 entirely by public subscription; the reconstruction is now itself a registered cultural property.
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Sumiyoshi Taisha
A shrine form said to predate Buddhism's arrival: straight gables, four halls ranged toward the sea.
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Shitennoji
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
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
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
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
A white building with rounded corners - one of the first arrivals of stripped modernism in Japanese commercial architecture.
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Tsutenkaku
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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Tondabayashi Jinaimachi
A self-governing town built around a temple, and the only preservation district in Osaka prefecture.
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Open-Air Museum of Old Japanese Farmhouses
Japan's first open-air architecture museum, comparing farmhouse types from every region on one site.
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Modern Architecture of Nakanoshima
A sandbar between two rivers dense with public buildings from Meiji to Showa - water and architecture forming the city's spine.
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Semba Modern Buildings
Small 1920s and 30s office blocks in the merchant quarter, faced in Art Deco and even Mayan-revival ornament.
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Karahori District
A quarter spared by the bombing, its wooden row houses and alleys now being converted into shops and galleries.
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Bridges of Osaka
A city of canals and bridges, many of them built at merchants' own expense - their names still carry those origins.
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Hirakata-juku
Where the river traffic met the highway; the old boatmen's inn survives as a museum.
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Garden Suburbs of Ikeda
Japan's first estate of houses sold to commuters - the model on which railway companies built the suburbs.
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Kishiwada Castle
Shigemori Mirei laid a dry garden in the keep's yard, its stones arranged as the battle formations of a Chinese strategist.
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Keitakuen Garden
By Ogawa Jihei, who defined the modern Japanese garden - hidden behind the city art museum.
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Shopfront Design of Osaka
Giant three-dimensional signs - a crab, a pufferfish, an octopus - built out over the street as the city's own visual idiom.
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Osaka Aquarium and Modern Architecture
Visitors spiral downward past the tanks - a building where the route itself decides the order of what you see.