Shopping Spots in Osaka Area

  • Abeno Q’s MALL
    Shopping
    Osaka Osakashi Abeno-ku Abenosuji 1-6-1
    A shopping mall connected directly to Tennoji Station opened in April 2011 and one of the largest malls in Osaka City. The facility is host to some 250 fashionable apparel stores, food shops, lifestyle goods shops, and restaurants. Major retailers such as Ito-Yokado, Bic Camera, and Tokyu Hands can be found here as well as Shibuya 109 Abeno, a shop specializing in the latest young peoples’ fashions. The restaurant area was just remodeled in 2017 and more and more interesting establishments are opening here, including brand-new businesses and companies making their first foray into the Kansai region.
  • Abeno Harukas Kintetsu Main Store
    Shopping
    Osaka Osakashi Abeno-ku Abenosuji 1-1-43
    One of Japan’s largest independent department stores, comprised of a Tower Building situated in floors B2 through 14 in the 300 meter tall Abeno Harukas skyscraper and an adjoining Wing Building. The facility is filled with a diverse variety of establishments, including leading overseas clothing brands, fashionable casual apparel brands, restaurants, and interior design shops. There is also the Abeno Harukas Dining restaurant area spanning three floors, Soraha specialty shop area, an electronics retail shop, large scale bookstore, and more, providing countless hours of fun shopping for locals and tourists alike. The closest stations are Tennoji Station and Osaka Abenobashi Station.
  • OCAT
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Osaka Osakashi Naniwa-ku Minatomachi 1-4-1
    Directly connected to JR Namba Station, this shopping complex is part of the largest bus terminal in west Japan. A shuttle bus runs between the bus terminal on the second floor and Kansai International Airport. The shopping complex also serves as a base for the limousine bus, which connects to Itami Airport and Kobe Airport, long-distance express buses and tour buses. Inside the complex, are a vast array of restaurants and shopping floors. While waiting for the bus, you can enjoy browsing the many wares available here, or relax on the roof garden amongst the 10,000 plants planted here, made up of approximately 200 different varieties of herbs, including lavender.
  • Keihan Mall
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    3.5
    37 Reviews
    Shopping
    Osaka Osakashi Miyakojima-ku Higashinodamachi 2-1-38
    This is a shopping mall directly connected to the Keihan Electric Railway Kyobashi Station. In 1990, the hotel Keihan Kyobashi was opened in the building, and established an apparel, food and lifestyle shopping complex. There are approximately 150 stores located from the basement to the seventh floor which include fashion stores, stores that sell household goods, cafe restaurants, and food products with an atmosphere inviting customers to casually drop in. Access to the shopping complex from the JR Station and subway is convenient and it is the perfect spot to take a break or spend time waiting for a train. There is also a spacious nursing room with a bench sofa and a wash basin for parents with small children.

    週末の夜ともなれば帰宅途上の会社員風の利用が目立っていました。11月下旬共なれば、そろそろクリスマスシーズンですが、意外にも飾付けは少なそうでした。又、飲食店コーナーも比較的混みあっているようでした。

  • Semba Center Building
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    3.5
    67 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Sembachuou 2-3
    Commercial buildings in central Semba. The buildings are ten, looking like supporting the Hanshin Expressway, with the first through third are serving as a wholesale market, fourth through ninth are for wholesale textile stores, and the tenth is a shopping center filled with specialty stores. Its major characteristic is its direct access to the Midosuji Line / Central Line Honmachi Station and the Sakaisuji Line / Central Line Honmachi Station, where three lines meet at four different stations. The shopping center comes complete with its own car park, and customers can enter the shops without ever getting wet in the rain. And, with the various restaurants and cafes centered in the underground area, it is always full of tourists and families, making it a very lively place.

    Fashion / Small household goods wholesale market. If you are looking for a wholesale market like the ones found in China or Hong Kong, you will be sorely disappointed. To my understanding, they...

  • Shinsaibashi-suji shopping street
    Shopping
    Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Shinsaibashisuji 2-2-22
    "Shinsaibashi-suji is a shopping street located in Chuo Ward, Osaka City. The street has a long history; in the Edo period (1603-1868), it flourished as a route leading to the Dotonbori theater district, and there was a popular saying: ""Ginza in the East, Shinsaibashi in the West."" Today, Shinsaibashi-suji is lined by around 180 businesses, including fashion boutiques, lifestyle stores, specialty stores and gourmet restaurants. The area to the north of Nagabori street has always had many textile wholesalers located there, and is known as the ""Senba Shinsaibashi-suji shopping street""; for a fashion-related business in Osaka, opening a store there is a mark of success and status."
  • LaLaport EXPOCITY
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Osaka Suitashi Senribampakukouen 2-1
    This is a large commercial facility located within the Expo ’70 Commemorative Park about a two-minute walk away from Banpaku-kinen-koen Station, Osaka Monorail. You can also enjoy it after using the entertainment facilities in EXPOCITY, and it is also popular with families. There are approximately 305 stores assembled within the spacious facility such as fashion, interior, lifestyle goods, culture and gourmet, and there are also a large number of stores which have set up shop for the first time in Japan. In particular, we recommend popular character themed restaurant which is the only place where you can enjoy and the large scale food court which has an unbroken view of the tower of the sun statue.
  • Osaka Station City
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Umeda 3-1
    This large composite facility is centered around JR Osaka Station, the South Gate Building, and the North Gate Building. You’ll find everything from the encyclopedia Daimaru Umeda, Hotel Granvia Osaka, the Lucua 1100 commercial facility, a movie theater, a sports club, and more, not to mention clothing shops, restaurants, hotels, medical facilities, and every other type of business and service imaginable. There are several plazas as well, making it convenient for meeting up or taking a break.
  • Umeda Loft
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    4.0
    5 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Chayamachi 16-7
    This general living goods specialty store is about a seven-minute walk from the Chayamachi ticket gate at Umeda Station. Focusing on general goods and stationary they offer a wide variety of popular and trendy items. The store contains many sub-stores including the playful bookstore Village Vanguard, the hobby-shop/anime goods store Bunkyodo JOY, the first of its kind in Kansai three price shop via Capri, Shimamura Instruments, Ticket Port, mini theater Theater Umeda, and others. A variety of popular events are held in the first floor Loft Market and the fifth floor Loft Forum.

    梅田の中心部から徒歩で行ける所にあるロフトです。文具やコスメ、日用雑貨とかいろんなものが売ってあります。若い人や観光客が多い印象でした。周辺には若者向けの店やテレビ局などがあり、賑わっています。

  • Minoh Q's MALL
    Shopping
    Osaka Minoo-shi Nishijuku 1-17-22
    This popular shopping mall is filled with an abundant variety of restaurants; cafes; and establishments offering things such as fashionable apparel, interior decor, accessories, beauty treatments, and foods. There's also a movie theater where you can take in a flic before or after shopping. Additionally, the mall holds a variety of events such as cosplay events and child raising get-togethers.
  • Shinsaibashi Opa
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Osaka Osaka-shi Chuo-ku Nishishinsaibashi 1-4-3
    This shopping mall is connected directly to the number 7 exit of Shinsaibashi Station on the Midosuji Line and Nagahori Tsurumi-Ryokuchi Line subways. Tenants include men's and women's fashion stores, boutiques, interior decor stores, children's and baby apparel and necessity shops, restaurants, and service establishments. There's also a nursing room and children's toilet with changing station, making this a convenient destination for shoppers with children.
  • Tennoji Mio
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Osaka Osakashi Tennouji-ku Hideinchou 10-39
    A large shopping mall comprised of a Main Building and Plaza Building connected directly to JR Tennoji Station. The facility is host to a large number of tenants including fashionable shops, restaurants, knickknack and lifestyle good stores, bookstores, stationary shops, cosmetics sellers, and clinics—everything from daily necessities to convenient establishments providing for life’s needs. Large retailers such as Loft, Sofmap, Franc Franc, mont-bell, and Plaza also have locations in the mall. The Mio Res restaurant floor is open until 11 p.m. and is a convenient place to pick up dinner on the way home.
  • Hanshin Umeda Main Store Snack Bar Park
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    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...

  • Rikuro Ojisan no Mise (Namba Main Shop)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Namba 3-2-28
    This is a cheesecake specialty shop located in the Ebisubashi-suji shopping district near the Namba Station on the Midosuji Subway Line. The cheesecake with a base scattered with raisins soaked in homemade syrup, is baked in the kitchen in the store to provide customers with freshly baked cakes at all times. There is an eat-in space on the first floor and Riku Cafe ROOM is on the second and third floor. In the cafe, customers can enjoy freshly baked cake and sweets with originally blended coffee and tea.
  • 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.
  • MIRAIZAKAOSAKA-JO
    Shopping
    Osaka Osaka-shi Chuo-ku Osakajo 1-1
  • Little OSAKA
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    4.0
    17 Reviews
    Shopping
    Osaka Osakashi Konohana-ku Shimaya 6-2-61 Universal/City Walk Osaka 3F
    This Osaka souvenir market is located in the shopping complex “Universal City Walk” next to Universal Studios Japan. Visitors will find a variety of unique Osaka souvenirs such as Takoyaki flavored snack food, Kansai limited parody goods, and Yoshimoto (an entertaining company) goods, etc. The shop also contains “Glico-Ya” the antenna store for Ezaki Glico (a popular confectionery company) and the Glico running man signboard at the shop is a landmark. The nearest station is Universal City Station.

    大阪の人気観光スポット、ユニバーサルスタジオジャパンに隣接する商業施設にあるお店です。大阪土産やグリコ、キティなどが購入できます。

  • Osaka Ikuno Korea Town, Miyuki Shopping Street
    Shopping
    Osaka Osaka-shi Ikuno-ku Momodani Hoka
  • 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.
  • Hoop
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    3.5
    22 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Osaka Osakashi Abeno-ku Abenosuji 1-2-30
    “Hoop” is a large building in front of Osaka Abenobashi Station with a unique exterior resembling the name. It is filled with fashion stores, with about 50 stores in total from the basement floor to the sixth floor. There are many famous brands aimed at young women as well as select boutiques and popular cafes and restaurants. Add in a Tower Records, bookstore, ABC Mart, and other major stores, and it’s easy to see why this place is always brimming with customers.

    ハルカス近鉄百貨店の近くにあるファッションビルです。尖ったお洒落な人が好きそうな雰囲気です。無難な買い物なら近鉄百貨店の方が使いやすそう。

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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."

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