Tenjin Matsuri - Rikutogyo Kaitlynn Scannell The Tenjin Matsuri is the greatest festival in Osaka, with history stretching over 1000 years. Rikutogyo is a land procession...
6 Activities Hiking around Minoo Waterfall Martijn Beckers At the first signs of spring we set out on a hike to Minoo waterfall: beautiful scenery and monkey business guaranteed.
23 Getting to Namba from The Swissotel Kazuto Ooyama Some ways to go to and from the Swissotel and Namba
6 Culture Artcourt Gallery: 2013 Exhibition John Carter Wondering the Okawa River in the Temmabashi area of Osaka I stumbled across the Art Court Gallery. Curious of the modern buil...
Culture National Museum of Ethnology Rebecca Daum The National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka is a great museum filled with interesting objects from around the world, including ...
Shopping Asobiya Handmade Gift Store Johannes Kiener Asobiya operates from an old wooden row house from the Showa period (1926-1989). Located in Nakazaki, it is a quiet neighborh...
Tenjin Matsuri - Yomiyasai Kaitlynn Scannell The Tenjin Matsuri is said to be the greatest festival in Osaka with a history stretching over a thousand years. Taking place...
Activities The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Camille Dufour-Blain The Wizarding World of Harry Potter or How to feel like a child again! In summer 2014, Universal Studios Japan opened a Harry...
7 Osaka's Koyoshi Sushi Karen Zheng Somewhere in downtown Osaka, Umeda, the 50-year old Koyoshi serves excellent sushi that would literally make one’s tastebuds ...