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Osaka Prefectural Sayamaike Museum

4.5

29 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Osakasayamashi Ikejirinaka 2

This museum is dedicated to land development history, with the dyke and unearthed cultural assets from Japan's oldest dammed reservoir, the historic Sayamaike. The dam was designed by architect Tadao Ando. The first thing to draw visitors' eyes is the permanent exhibition of a cross section of the dyke, which was created using the Shikiha koho method of construction, in the Asuka period. A 15-meter high and 60-meter wide section of the dyke was reconstructed for the exhibition, so the stratum of 1,400 years since the dyke's construction can be clearly seen. A place of lifelong learning, there are also many special exhibits and items of interest in the museum.

Two reasons to make the effort to visit Sayamaike: Tadao Ando’s building and waterfall and learning about the genius of Japanese engineering from 600. Our guide went out of his way to make our...
OSTEC Exhibition Hall

3.5

49 Reviews

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Osaka Osaka-shi Nishi-ku Utsubohonmachi 1-8-4

A science and technology exhibition facility located in Utsubohonmachi 1-Chome, Nishi Ward, Osaka City. Here you will find exhibitions on cutting-edge technologies by some 30 Japanese companies and organizations. The facility is divided into five technological categories: new materials, new lifestyles, the environment, communication and images, and energy. Visitors can experience the technologies on display through games and other exhibits. In addition, the facility holds events such as experiment and crafting classes on Sunday's and during the summer school holidays.

ホテルから近かったのでちょっと寄ってみました。入場は無料です。科学技術の紹介ということで気軽に見学できます。ただ、わざわざ大人の一人旅で立ち寄るような魅力は感じなかったので、なにかのついでなどでない限りはお勧めしません。
Kamigata Ukiyoe Painting

3.5

46 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Osaka-shi Chuo-ku Nanba 1-6-4

This is a small museum of woodblock prints based on kabuki theatre. Entry is 500 yen per person. It is set over 3 floors and there are explanations in English. If you have the time then, at extra...
Kosetsu Museum of Art

4.0

25 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Osaka-shi Kita-ku Nakanoshima 3-2-4 Nakanoshima Festival Tower West 4F

This museum has wisely gone for special exhibitions. We visited the excellent contrasts of Mucha and Toulouse-Lautrec and learnt plenty about these two artists and their relationship and lives. The...
Osaka Prefectural Chikatsu-asuka Museum

4.0

27 Reviews

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Osaka Minamikawachi-gun Kanancho Higashiyama 299

Osaka pref. Chikatsu Asuka Museum / 大阪府立近つ飛鳥博物館 Beautiful Spot! There are details in the official website. I recommend you to have a look.
Kishiwada Danjiri Kaikan

4.0

45 Reviews

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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。
Itsuo Art Museum

4.0

22 Reviews

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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

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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。
Yuki Museum of Art

4.0

17 Reviews

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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...
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。
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.
Osaka Prefectural Museum of Yayoi Culture

4.0

21 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Izumishi Ikegamichou 4-8-27

This is the only museum in the country dealing with documents and information on Yayoi culture, located approximately 600 meters from Shinodayama Station on the JR Hanwa Line. There are two permanent exhibition rooms displaying Yayoi culture to see and documents regarding the Ikegami Sone ruins, The World of Ikegami Sone. Visitors can experience Yayoi culture through authentic material, replica and video as well as enjoy learning about themes such as rice making, innovative technology, and a statue of Himiko holding a mirror. A wide variety of exhibitions including seasonal special exhibitions and archeology seminars are also held.

こちらは 1991年に開館しており 2022年10月1日-2023年３月31日迄老朽化に対する改修工事の為臨時休館になっています（添付写真参照）。こちらを訪問予定であれば来年春まで入館できないこと留意する必要があります。
Kuboso Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi

4.0

21 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Izumishi Uchidachou 3-6-12

This is an art museum exhibiting many Oriental antiques such as paintings, calligraphic works and handicrafts from Japan and China, located approximately three minutes from Kishiwada-Izumi Interchange. Visitors can experience a wide range of art on the site of approximately 16,500 meters square incorporating the main gallery, a new gallery as well as a music hall, civic gallery and a tea room etc. In addition to the permanent exhibition of Chinese crafts and Western modern art, special exhibitions in collaboration with other museums are also held. Original goods such as catalogs, research books, and hanging scrolls are available for purchase.

大阪滞在時 2023年4月9日-6月4日迄特別陳列《日本美術の名品》が開催されていることを知り急遽訪問しました。特別陳列《日本美術の名品》は [本館]にて国宝2点他国重要文化財多数を含む計83点が展示され見応えタップリで、又 [新館]での中国工芸品の展示も私達の興味にピッタリでした。こちらの美術館では [和泉市久保惣市民キャリー]や[和泉市久保惣市民ホール]等和泉市民の文...
National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku)

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Suitashi Senribampakukouen 10-1

The National Museum of Ethnology (or Minpaku) is located in the Expo Commemoration Park in Suita City, Osaka. With exhibits centered around cultural anthropology and ethnology it is the world's largest ethnology museum. Researcher's have collected some 345,000 articles of daily life tools and native dress from every part of the globe. Exhibits in the Main Building are divided into nine geographical regions and with both musical and spoken exhibitions, starting in Oceania before heading eastward in a lap around the globe. Come be introduced to a variety of world-wide cultures with nearly 12,000 displayed materials that focus on daily tools and necessities of life as well as 800 video shorts that show different cultural etiquettes and arts as well as daily activities. Special events and themed exhibitions are held multiple times throughout the year.
Mint Museum

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Tenma 1-1-79

"A 15-minute walk from Minami-morimachi Subway Station, the museum is marked by Japan's first gas lamp. Originally built in 1911 as a thermal power station, the building was refurbished into the Mint Museum and now is the only brick western-style building remaining from the Meiji period (1868-1912) on the premises. On the second floor, there are exhibits on the history of the Mint and prize medals awarded to athletes at the Tokyo and Nagano Olympics, etc., as well as an ""Experience Corner"", where visitors can touch gold and silver bullion bars. On the third floor, various coins from around the world are illuminated by LED and displayed. A reading room for further information is also open to the public to learn more about currency."
Satsukiyama Park Urban Greening Botanical Garden

4.0

19 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Ikeda-shi Go Tsukioka 5-2-5 Ikeda-shi Midori no Center

This botanical garden has a greenhouse and a variety of other ornamental gardens, and visitors can take in seasonal flowers. Exhibitions, classes, and other fun events are also held in the Green Center year-round, including plant-dyeing classes, weaving classes, and planting classes which can be enjoyed by parents and children together, as well as standing classes such as moss terrarium and scented sachet making.

市政施行50周年を記念し、1989年(平成元年)5月12日に都市緑化植物園は開園したそうです。池田市広報によると、先駆けて4月28日に温室が開園し、少し前の1987年(昭和62年)10月1日に、家庭での園芸相談等を受け付ける「緑のセンター」がオープンしたそうです。植物園は五月山全体構想での整備なので、五月山公園で有名な桜・ツツジ・紅葉以外の季節も十分に楽しめます。植物園は開園してから20年以上...
JT Biohistory Research Hall

3.0

9 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Takatsuki-shi Murasakicho 1-1

"This museum is located in Murasaki-cho, Takatsuki City. The museum traces the 3.8-billion-year history of life on earth from the perspective of cells and DNA, and visitors can view exhibits such as a picture scroll presenting the history and interrelationships between a diverse variety of life; and a cell exhibition where you can learn about the workings of cells. On ""Biohistory Day"" every third Saturday of the month, the museum holds lectures by researchers and other events."

JR高槻駅から歩いて11分ほど北西部に歩けば行くことができるJTの研究館である。子供時代はよく自転車で通った道で、高槻スイミングスクールの近くにある。
Mizuno Sportology Gallery

4.5

7 Reviews

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Osaka Osakashi Suminoe-ku Nankoukita 1-12-35 Mizuno Corporation Osaka head office building 1F

Approximately five minutes' walk from the Nanko Port Town Line's Nakafuto Station, this gallery is on the first floor of the sporting equipment manufacturer, Mizuno's head office. Sports-related exhibits line the walls, with everything from official Olympic posters from the Meiji period to the present day, to uniforms of baseball players in the late Taisho period, to leather gloves from the early Showa period. There is also a corner where visitors can touch models of equipment currently being used by present-day athletes.

온갖 종류의 스포츠용품이 다 있음 특히 야구 좋아하는 사람들 진짜 행복해함 예술품같은 글러브들 구경하기 좋음 박물관이라고 표현 ㅋㅋㅋ

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Umeda Nakanoshima Minamimorimachi / Temma Yodoyabashi / Kitahama / Hommachi Osaka Castle Shinsaibashi / Namba Tennoji / Shinsekai Tsuruhashi / Tamatsukuri Bentencho / Osaka Bay Area Sumiyoshi / Tezukayama Hokusetsu Kitakawachi / Higashi-Osaka Minami-Osaka

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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."