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Hattori Ryokuchi Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Toyonakashi Hattoriryokuchi 1-1

This is one of Osaka Prefecture's most famous green areas and is only a five-minute walk from Ryokuchi-koen Station. This area of land, which is 33 times the size of Koshien Baseball Stadium, has a botanical garden where you can enjoy plants from all the seasons, tennis, a horse-riding facility, a swimming pool, a play area with a large playground, the Open-Air Museum of Old Japanese Farm Houses, an outdoor stage, and more. The park was selected as one of Japan's Best 100 City Parks. The park is rich with nature with pine trees, green roads, and a nearby forest with fountains and streams. Many events are also held at the various facilities across the park. People visit at all times of the year when they're in the North Osaka area.
Hanshin Umeda Main Store Snack Bar Park

4.0

31 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Osaka-shi Kita-ku Umeda 1-13-13

改装前から通わせて頂いています♪改装前には、カレー丼が好きでよく食べてたのですが、無くなりました。残念です。シンプルなカレーライスもよく食べました。そのときに振り掛けていたGABANスパイスも好きですが正確には何か知りません。その店の名前も覚えていませんが、復活して欲しい! そして現在のフードコートは改装し、好きな店がオムライスの「たまご丸」です。しかし、愚痴になりますがトマトソースとデミグラソ...
Tsurumiryokuchi Expo '90 Commemorative Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Osakashi Tsurumi-ku Ryokuchikouen 2-163

This municipal park spans Tsurumi Ward and Moriguchi City. Tsurumi Ryokuchi Park was first developed in 1990, as the main venue for the International Garden and Greenery Exposition (Expo '90). The park is located directly outside the Underground Nagahori Tsurumi Ryokuchi Line's Tsurumi Ryokuchi Station. Many of the 1990 Exposition's facilities and gardens still remain, including the Sakuya Konohana Kan (botanical garden) and the Inochi no Tou tower. Many of the spaces previously used for things like the amusement park have been repurposed as horse-riding courses, gyms and sports facilities. There are also camping grounds and barbeque plazas for the public to freely enjoy sports and recreation here.
Kishiwada Danjiri Kaikan

4.0

45 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Kishiwadashi Honmachi 11-23

This museum is approximately a 13-minute walk from the Nankai Line's Kishiwada Station. You can learn all about the Kishiwada Danjiri festival at this facility. Actual items used in the Danjiri festival are exhibited in the event hall on the second floor, and every hour, there is a screening of the Danjiri festival on the 27-screen display. Also exhibited here, are things such as the Old Kamiyacho, which was made in 1842 and retired in 1990. In the experience corner on the fourth floor, you can experience what you feel like to ride on the top of Danjiri big roof, which is just like the stage star and often a carpenter does the role, and the exciting Danjiri-bayashi, with the great Taiko drums and small Taiko drums.

These portable shrines are drawn along by columns of young men during festival days. I saw such a parade in 2013.
Osaka Garden of Floral Culture

4.0

23 Reviews

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Osaka Kawachinaganoshi Takou 2292-1

A cultural facility containing colorful gardens and flower-focused offerings, the Osaka Garden of Floral Culture is located in Kawachinagano City, Osaka Prefecture. You’ll find a rose garden with approximately 300 species of plants and 1,500 specimens as well as a clematis garden with about 300 species and over 600 specimens. There are also peonies, Chinese peonies, plum blossoms, hydrangeas, and many other types of flowers that can be seen regardless of season. There’s also a pyramid-shaped greenhouse that’s one of the largest in the country and houses plants from all over the world, such as cacti and orchids. The event hall hosts exhibitions, spot sales, and other plant-themed events.

人もあまりいてないので、ゆっくりと楽しめる。春夏秋冬、四季折々の花が魅力的で、河内長野駅からバスもあるので、ぜひいってほしい。
Hiraoka Park

4.0

20 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Higashiosakashi Higashitoyourachou 12-12

This vast park at the foot of mountains is approx. six minute-walk from the Kintetsu Railway Nara Line's Hiraoka Station. In the cherry blossom square, a famous cherry blossom viewing spot in Higashi Osaka City, about 100 Yoshino cherry blossoms bloom every year during the peak season, painting the entire area in pink. In addition, there are also observatories where you can watch Osaka's spectacular sunset, and a stone tablet with a haiku written by Matsuo Basho during his last trip crossing Kuragari Pass. Forest Toy Box, which reopened in June 2016, is 100-120 meters high, and uses its height and slope for a roller slide that is very popular with children.

児童公園として、展望台として、あるいは生駒山麓-暗がり峠へのハイキングコースとして皆さんが思い思いに楽しんでいます。春は梅園も桜も名所として有名です。
LUCUA 1100

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Umeda 3-1-3

This building, which opened in 2015, is filled with fashion stores is in the “North Gate Building,” which can be directly accessed from JR Osaka Station. It shares a plaza with the adjacent LUCUA building. It boasts trendy shops filled with the latest fashions and lifestyle goods, not to mention stores inherited from the department store “JR Osaka Mitsukoshi Isetan,” offering a “never-before-seen combination” of goods to a wide variety of demographics. In addition to a Tsutaya bookstore and Disney Store, it also features a number of famous restaurants and the “Baruchika” zone, which is filled with food and drink establishments that stay open into the night.
Itsuo Art Museum

4.0

22 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Ikedashi Sakaehonmachi 12-27

This is a museum located in Ikeda City, Osaka Prefecture. The museum exhibits approximately 5,400 artworks that Ichizo Kobayashi, the founder of Hankyu Electric Railway, collected throughout his life. There are 15 certified national Important Cultural Properties and 20 Important Artworks. The famous portrait of Toyotomi Hideyoshi by Kano Mitsunobu, used in history textbooks, is also stored in this museum. On Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays visitors can also enjoy Sokushinan, a reproduced tea room in the museum which Itsuo (Ichizo) personally planned.

小林一三記念館を見て立ち寄りました。昭和モダン図鑑という阪急グループの宝塚歌劇や野球などポスターが展示されていました。時代の変化を感じさせる展示会だったと思います。前の阪急デパートのイラストが懐かしかったです。大阪の代表的企業グループである阪急の展示あればもっと質の良いポスターの展示があっても良かったと思います。以前大阪府立博物館の海峡を渡る布展で戦前の大阪の企業のポスターが展示されていてイメー...
Mino Park Museum of Insects

4.0

35 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Minoo-shi Minookouen 1-18

A museum located inside Minoh Park in Minoh City. Designed around the concept of the world that insects see, the museum displays live and preserved examples of insects which live in Minoh as well as around the world. There's also a theater which shows animated videos and a kids' room which holds events such as insect petting sessions. Visitors can view a variety of plants and butterflies in the museum's butterfly garden.

This is located within Mino-o park and you will see it on the way to the waterfall. Its more kids than adults. Visit only if theres time.
Botanical Gardens, Faculty of Science, Osaka City University

4.0

19 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Katano-shi Kisaichi 2000

This botanical garden is located in Kisaichi, Katano City. The outdoor garden is planted with around 450 varieties of trees and plants with a focus on Japanese species, including a recreation of a Japanese forest containing 11 of Japan's most well-known species, as well as areas dedicated to plants from other countries, cherry trees, maples, plum trees, and aquatic plants. The garden regularly holds guided tours as well as seasonal events such as cherry and plum blossom viewing parties.

これまで桜の季節を外していた。なるほど。ハーブ園の向かいに絶滅危惧種園ができていた。高齢者向けの割引制度ができていた。 168号線私市小学校下に無料の駐車場ができていた。「交野市いわふね自然の森スポーツ・文化センター」の向かいであるが、天の川沿いの私市水辺プラザ公園を抜けると５分前後。
Tennoji Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Osakashi Tennouji-ku Chausuyamachou 1-108

A municipal park located in Osaka City’s Tennoji Ward. Facilities such as the Tennoji Zoo; Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts; and Keitakuen Garden, a renowned garden which once belonged to the Sumitomo clan, are located inside the park. Historic Mt. Chausu, found in the northeast part of the park, served as the headquarters of Tokugawa Ieyasu during the winter campaign of the siege of Osaka, as well as the headquarters of Sanada Yukimura during the summer campaign of the siege. In October 2015, the park entrance area was remodeled as the natural lawn Park Market facility, and here visitors can find fashionable cafés, a farm fresh vegetable market, restaurants, a dog run, and futsal court.
Utsubo Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka prefecture Osaka-shi Nishi-ku Shimamoto cho

This park is located just past Tosabori Road, south of Umeda, Osaka. The park is split into two parts, east and west, across Naniwa-suji Street, with rows of Zolkova trees and a rose garden on the east side, and Utsubo Tennis Center on the west side, which hosts international tennis competitions. The rose garden is the oldest in Osaka City, and 3,400 roses are planted there, with 170 different varieties. The garden is used, not only for people to visit, but also doubles as a wedding venue. Every year, in mid-May, when the roses are in bloom, the Rose Festa is held here, drawing a great many visitors.
Nakanoshima Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Nakanoshima

The first public park in Osaka City, which opened in 1891. Sandwiched between the Dojima and Tosabori rivers, the park serves as a verdant oasis amidst a downtown business district. The park contains numerous natural and cultural facilities, including a rose garden blooming with 3,700 rose plants spanning 310 cultivars, and the Neo-Renaissance-style Central Public Hall which is a nationally designated Important Cultural Property.
Yuki Museum of Art

4.0

17 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Osaka-shi Chuo-ku Hiranomachi 3-3-9

An art museum located in Hirano-machi 3-Chome, Chuo Ward, Osaka City. The museum display's Japanese restaurant Kitcho founder Teiichi Yuki's collection of tea ceremony utensils. Some of the oldest pieces date back to the distant Nara period and the valuable collection includes 13 designated Important Cultural Properties and three designated Art Treasures. The museum also holds special exhibitions, lectures, and tea ceremony events in spring and fall.

令和5年春季展2023年4月1日-6月25日《茶席に見る掛物と陶磁器の展開 -床の間を彩る茶道具-》が開催されておりその内；後期5月10日-6月25日...
Herbis Plaza

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Umeda 2-5-25

This is a commercial facility in the east wing of the skyscraper “HERBIS OSAKA” on the south side of JR Osaka Station. On all eight floors from the basement second floor to the sixth floor visitors will find a variety of world-class brand shops and refined restaurants. There are a variety of services offered including a beauty salon, travel agency, showroom, and a childcare facility as well. Visitors can spend time in elegance and forget about everyday life enjoying the atmosphere inside the luxurious building finished with marble and carpets.
The Entrepreneurial Museum of Challenge and Innovation, Osaka

4.0

26 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Honmachi 1-4-5 Osaka Industrial Creation Center B1

This is a facility that exhibits the history and background of successful entrepreneurs who were born in Osaka. It is a five-minute walk from Sakaisuji-Honmachi Station on the Sakaisuji Subway Line. The exhibition is divided into three areas representing different time zones from the Meiji period, displaying information boards and artifacts of entrepreneurs who played an active role in each time period. In addition to seminars for corporates and group tours for students, there is an Exploration Quiz and a game to find the mascot characters Three Beckoning Cat Brothers for children.

大阪メトロ堺筋本町すぐの、大阪産業創造館の地下一階にあります。大阪産業界の歴史に焦点を当てたとても興味ある歴史館です。一見の価値ありです。
Sennan Satoumi Park

4.0

13 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Sennan-gun

A park located in Tannowa, Misaki Town, Sennan County, Osaka Prefecture. Adjoined by Hakotsukuri Beach and Tannowa Beach, the park has outdoor facilities like beach volleyball courts, a large playground, and barbecue area, as well as indoor facilities such as a multipurpose room, training room, and conference room. The park is also the main venue for the Osaka Marine Festival held in summer.

2020/1/31（金）仕事の取引先を関空に送り届けた後、和歌山へ向けてドライブしている途中、トイレ休憩に立ち寄りました。入場料がたしか600円ほどで、トイレ休憩にしては高過ぎるのですが、海水浴場があり、BBQなどの設備が整っています。夏場に家族で半日遊びに来ることを考えると格安と思います。
Ogimachi Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Osaka-shi Kita-ku Ogimachi 1-1
Satsukiyama Zoo

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Ikedashi Ayaha 2-5-33

This zoo is located within Satsukiyama Park and is about a 15-minute walk from Hankyu Ikeda Station. Since opening in 1957 it has played host to numerous guests. The zoo facilities include a Friendship Zoo, Gallery & Apple Island, Tasmanian Place and others. The Friendship Park, where you can pet and meet various animals, is particularly popular amongst children. Rare Australian animals including wombats and wallabies are also here at the zoo including the first wombats born in Japan who are growing up nice and healthy.
Tamateyama Park Fureai Park

4.5

10 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Kashiwarashi Enmyouchou Near 14-2 (South parking lot)

This municipal park extends across the Kintetsu Minami Osaka Line's Domyoji Station and the Kintetsu Osaka Line's Kawachi-Kokubu Station. The park is full of nature and flowers that can be enjoyed throughout the year. There are also various types of play equipment to be enjoyed in this hands-on park, such as the large slide Roller Train, box-type athletic Rope Climbing and Children's Ski Slope, where children can experience the thrills of sledding. In the Attractions Plaza, there are also rental bicycles for children (for a fee), which is a popular for families.

もともとはテーマパークだったが、今は違う。芝滑りや変わり種自転車乗り場などもあり、小さなお子様連れでお弁当を持って出かけるには最適です。

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Osaka Areas

While Osaka prefecture is the country's second smallest prefecture, its capital, Osaka City, is the country’s third-largest and arguably one of the most popular in the Kansai region thanks to its vibrant nightlife, the Osaka people’s openness, and its much-loved cuisine, which has earned it the nickname "the nation’s kitchen."