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Osaka Umeda Sky building

The Umeda Sky Building is a spectacular high rise building near Osaka and Umeda Stations. It is also known as the "New Umeda City".The 173 meter tall building consists of two main towers which are connected with each other by the "Floating Garden Observatory" on the 39th floor. 700 yen admission fee.

The observation platform of the observatory is a bridge connecting the two towers of the Umeda Sky Building, whose roof features a doughnut shape called the “Floating Garden Observatory” that provides an unobstructed 360-degree view of the city of Osaka

Reflections in the glass of the Umeda Sky Building

Reflections in the glass of the Umeda Sky Building

The Umeda Sky Building features the World’s Highest Escalator, crossing the wide atrium-like space in the center

Umeda Sky building

The Umeda Sky Building is the nineteenth-tallest building in Osaka Prefecture, and one of the city’s most recognizable landmarks. The building was designed by Hiroshi Hara

Osaka Maritime Museum

Osaka Maritime Museum

The Osaka Dome, home to the Orix Buffaloes and Hanshin Tigers

Spherical atrium design of at the entrance to the NHK Osaka building

The National Museum of Art, a subterranean museum for Japanese and international arts

Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan

Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan It opened in 1990 and in February 2008 the aquarium reached its 50 millionth visitor since the opening, with 60% of repeat visitors.

Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan

There are 30,000 specimens to observe, belonging 580 different species spread over 16 tanks

Shitennō-ji with Abeno Harukas in the background

Standing at 300 meters, Abeno Harukas in Osaka is the tallest skyscraper in Japan. The building stands on top of the Kintetsu Osaka Abenobashi Station and is conveniently located across from JR Tennoji Station. It houses a department store, an art museum, a hotel and an observation deck.

The Osaka Castle and the skyscrapers of Osaka Business Park, Kyōbashi

Osaka Daimaru, ShinsaibashiThe main building has two stories underground and eight stories above ground

Osaka Daimaru, ShinsaibashiThis department store is housed in a massive neo-gothic style building designed by Vories.

Osaka Daimaru, Shinsaibashi

Osaka Daimaru Shinsaibashi

Ceiling

Manhole cover Osaka

Osaka Castle Park

Manhole cover Osaka

Tsūtenkaku (lit. "Tower

Reaching Heaven") is a

tower and well-known

landmark of Osaka and advertises

Hitachi

Tsūtenkaku total height is 103 m; the main observation

deck at a height of 91 m The Kuromon Ichiba Market

The Dotonbori Canal has often been used as a movie location for films such as 'Black Rain'. The area around the canal is referred to as Dotonbori

Dotonbori is a large scale downtown along the south bank of the Dotonbori-gawa Canal. Osaka is known as the gastronomists' town, and thus the entire area of Dotonbori is thronged with an unbelievable number of restaurants and amusement facilities

Dotonbori is often selected as a scene in the Japanese and foreign movies as the symbol of Osaka

Osaka Dotonbori

This six and a half meter crab is on the front of the crab restaurant Kani Doraku. It is mechanized, being able to move its arms and eyestalks. Built in 1960

Advertising DotomboriDRagon

Osaka Shinsaibashi suji Gate Night View

The Shinsaibashi is the largest shopping area in Osaka where many boutiques and specialty shops are gathered, attracting local people and visitors

Shinsaibashi-suji, a covered shopping street

Situated at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, Osaka is the second largest city by the daytime population after Tokyo's 23 wards and the third largest city by the nighttime population after Tokyo's 23 special wards and Yokohama in Japan, serving as a major economic hub.Historically a merchant city, Osaka has also been known as the "nation's kitchen” and served as a center for the rice trade during the Edo period.

Osaka contains numerous urban canals and bridges, many of which serve as the namesake for their surrounding neighbourhoods. The phrase "808 bridges of Naniwa" was an expression in old Japan used to indicate impressiveness and the "uncountable". Osaka numbered roughly 200 bridges by the Edo period and 1629 bridges by 1925. As many of the city's canals were gradually filled in, the number dropped to 872, of which 760 are currently managed by Osaka City.

According to the census in 2005, there were 2,628,811 residents in Osaka. Osaka is served by two airports outside of the city. Due to its geographical position, Osaka's international ferry connections are far greater than that of Tokyo.Expo '70 was a world's fair held in Osaka. The theme of the Expo was "Progress and Harmony for Mankind." This was the first world's fair held in Japan  

The Osaka Municipal Subway system alone ranks 8th in the world by annual passenger ridership, serving over 912 million people annually

Hiroshima (Hiroshima Station) and Osaka (Shin-Osaka

Station) are connected with each other by the JR Sanyo

Shinkansen. Nozomi and Mizuho trains require about 80 minutes for the journey, while

Sakura trains require a few minutes more. 10,200 yen for

a reserved seat on Sakura

Hiroshima Station

Mazda MX-5The new roadster in the vicinity of the Shinkansen ticket gate of Hiroshima Station

Osaka Station City

Greater Osaka has an extensive network of railway lines, comparable to that of

Greater Tokyo

Osaka Station is a major railway station

in Osaka's Umeda district (also known as Kita)

that is served by a large number of local and

interregional trains, but not the Shinkansen which stop at

Shin-Osaka Station

Osaka Station City's landmark is a large glass roof that spans over the railway tracks and gives the station a lot of new open space

The bridge that connects the north and south buildings is called Toki no Hiroba (Time and Space Plaza) and provides a pleasant open space above the railway tracks for travelers to move from one side of the station to the other, take a rest or observe trains

The Toki no Hiroba plaza, which spans over the railway tracks

Osaka Train Station

In the underground connecting Namba Station with the Yotsubashi (Dark Blue) line is an art gallery. The art displayed are all reproductions from the Art Institute of Chicago

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Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)The Bedroom1889

Chicago Gallery

Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)Portrait of a Woman in a Black Fichu, 1878

Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) Tehamana Has Many Parents, or The Ancestors of Tehamana, 1893

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919) Alfred Sisley, 1876

Chicago Gallery

Chicago Gallery

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Renoir (French,

1841-1919) Alfred

Sisley, 1876

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

(French, 1841-1919)

Lucie Berard (Child in White)

1883

Chicago Gallery

Chicago Gallery

Chicago Gallery

Odilon Redon (French, 1840–

1916) Flower Clouds

1903

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–

1903) Why Are You

Angry? (No Te Aha Oe Riri),

1896

Chicago Gallery

Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891) A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte1884-86

Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891)

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

1884-86

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919)

Two Sisters (On the Terrace)

The mirror sphere at OCAT (Osaka City Air Terminal), a five-floor shopping and entertainment complex above the Namba subway and train stations

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