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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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OsakaArt & CraftsFujiidera
Domyoji Tenmangu
Objects said to be Michizane's own are National Treasures; the district was home to the clan that made the haniwa.
OsakaMuseumsHigashiosaka
Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum
The writer's study left as it was, beside an eleven-metre wall of his own 20,000 books, built by Tadao Ando.
OsakaMuseumsTakatsuki
Imashirozuka Kofun
Thought to be an emperor's tomb; the ritual platform of house, human and animal figures was excavated and rebuilt in place.
OsakaArt & CraftsIzumi
Kuboso Memorial Museum
Founded on a cotton family's gift; its celadon vase and Heian manuscript are both National Treasures.
OsakaArchitectureToyonaka
Open-Air Museum of Old Japanese Farmhouses
Japan's first open-air architecture museum, comparing farmhouse types from every region on one site.
OsakaArchitectureOsaka
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.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
National Bunraku Theatre
Home of the puppet theatre born in Osaka; each head is carved by a specialist and repaired down the generations.
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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.
OsakaArt & CraftsSakai
Incense of Sakai
Incense making began where the aromatic woods landed; blending and forming are still separate trades.
OsakaArchitectureHirakata
Hirakata-juku
Where the river traffic met the highway; the old boatmen's inn survives as a museum.
OsakaArchitectureIkeda
Garden Suburbs of Ikeda
Japan's first estate of houses sold to commuters - the model on which railway companies built the suburbs.
OsakaArchitectureKishiwada
Kishiwada Castle
Shigemori Mirei laid a dry garden in the keep's yard, its stones arranged as the battle formations of a Chinese strategist.
OsakaArchitectureOsaka
Keitakuen Garden
By Ogawa Jihei, who defined the modern Japanese garden - hidden behind the city art museum.
OsakaArchitectureOsaka
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.
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Otsuki Noh Theatre
An early example of a full Noh stage built indoors, bridge and painted pine and all.
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Mint Cherry Blossom Walk
The Mint opens its grounds for one week a year, one-way, past 130 varieties of cherry planted in sequence.
OsakaArt & CraftsHigashiosaka
Small Factories of Osaka
Thousands of tiny workshops packed together, their division of labour working as if it were one large factory.
Yao
Kawachi Cotton
Thick cotton from the flood plain, tough enough for sailcloth and working clothes.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Built as a symbol of recovery from the 1995 earthquake; Ando's stairs and cylinders make walking the building the experience.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art
Three thousand works by an artist who moved from graphics to painting, and who redraws the same subject again and again.