Images by Steffen A. Bass

Osaka Galleries

Umeda Sky Building : Overlooking the City of Osaka, Umeda Sky Building is Japan's first tall building with a rooftop observation deck - the Floating Garden Observatory. Not much of a garden to be honest (I did not see anything green growing up there...), but the view on a clear day is stunning - both during the day and during the evening...

Umeda Sky Building

Osaka Castle : Construction on Osaka Castle (Osakajo) started in 1583 on the former site of the Ishiyama Honganji Temple, which had been destroyed by Oda Nobunaga thirteen years earlier. Toyotomi Hideyoshi intended the castle to become the center of a new, unified Japan under Toyotomi rule.

However, a few years after Hideyoshi's death in 1615, Tokugawa troops attacked and destroyed the castle and terminated the Toyotomi lineage. Osaka Castle was rebuilt by Tokugawa Hidetada in the 1620s, but its main castle tower was struck by lightening in 1665 and burnt down.

The current reconstructed donjon was actually first built in 1931.

Downtown Osaka : Downtown Osaka is like a rabbit warren of shopping malls and food outlets clustered around gigantic subway and railway stations...

Den Den City : Den-den Town (electric town), also called the "Akihabara of Osaka," is clustered with electric appliances wholesalers' shops and computer stores block after block in the Nipponbashi district.

Kuromon Market : This is a treasure-house of all kinds of foods and flavors from abroads and all over Japan. Watch out for the butcher's store selling beef from the Kobe area for $125 per lbs.!!!

Amerika Mura : Amerika-Mura (America Village) is a hyper-trendy shopping enclave where a distinctly Japanese spin is put on the best (and more often the worst) of western fashion and paraded outrageously. At the weekend it has all the mayhem, colour and noise of London's Camden or New York's East Village.

Shitennoji Temple :

Shitennoji Temple

Tenjimbashi-Suji Shopping Street :

Tenjimbashi-Suji Shopping Street

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