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Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
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
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
Every gallery is underground; above ground stands only a steel facade, the building itself invisible.
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Osaka Museum of History
Palace foundations preserved in the basement, the throne hall rebuilt full size on the tenth floor - 1,300 years stacked vertically.
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Osaka Museum of Housing and Living
A whole block of 1830s Osaka rebuilt full size under an artificial sky that cycles from dawn to night.
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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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Kobayashi Ichizo Memorial Museum
The house of the man who invented the Japanese commuter-line business model, and founded the Takarazuka Revue.
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Tower of the Sun
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.
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EXPO'70 Pavilion
Housed in the Expo's Steel Pavilion, an experiment in sound and light, and a record of the whole fair as a laboratory.
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National Museum of Ethnology
Among the world's largest ethnology museums, arranged region by region without hierarchy - diversity of form as the exhibit.
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Sakai Rishonomori
On Sen no Rikyu and the poet Akiko Yosano, both born here; tea is served in a copy of Rikyu's own room.
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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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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.
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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.