Reference/Local/Exhibition/Literature Museum Spots in Osaka Area

  • Sakai Plaza of Rikyu and Akiko
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    87 Reviews
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    Osaka Sakai-shi Sakai-ku Shukuincho Nishi 2-1-1
    This museum facility is located in 2-Chome Nishi, Shukuin-cho, Sakai Ward, Sakai City. The facility consists of two museums with exhibits on two notable figures from Sakai - Sen no Rikyu, founder of the Urasenke tea ceremony school; and Akiko Yosano, a poet active from the Meiji through the Showa periods. There are also tearooms where you can experience the real Japanese tea ceremony, a tourist information center, and a restaurant. The Site of Sen no Rikyu's Residence is located across from the facility.

    The museum is not so big, but if you are interested in a tea ceremony and Sen Rikyu it is definitely worth a visit. Please make sure to get the instructions how to use their guiding system for...

  • Mino Visitor Center
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    3.5
    19 Reviews
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    Osaka Minoshi Mino 1576
    This is the base facility for Meiji no Mori Mino Quasi-National Park. The site is comprised of an exhibition room filled with everything about the geology and highlights of Mino to models of animals and plants and specimens, a lecture room that doubles as a library, and a management building. Many people visit it as a base when using the park, and use of the facility is free. Besides nature workshops that children enjoy, it also holds various nature experience events such as nature observation meetings regularly. In addition, you can spread out lunch boxes in Momiji Plaza, and the walking path is popular with parents and their children.

    箕面公園内かと思います。 交通手段は車に成ると思います。 私は阪急箕面駅から箕面の大滝経由で約1時間30分ぐらいかかりました。小川が流れており そのそばで移動用チェアーを持参して ゆったりと過ごしている人がチラホラと。 最高に贅沢です。 子供達が多分ボランティアの人に何か 遊び教わっていました。

  • Large Keyaki of Noma/Keyaki Museum
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    Osaka Met. Toyonogun Nosecho Nomainaji
    Located in the Nosecho district of Osaka’s Toyono-gun, the large Keyaki (Japanese zelkova tree) of Noma is a national natural monument and there is a museum nearby that mainly preserves and displays materials relating to it. The large keyaki with a height of approximately 27 meters and trunk girth of approximately 13 meters said to be about 1,000 years old is one of Japan’s foremost giant trees. The largest branch is approximately 39 meters by approximately 36 meters, and the tree is loved as a symbol of Nose’s abundance nature. From late April to July when the new leaves are out, wild brown hawk owls can be seen sitting in the branches. Entrance to the museum is free.

    大阪府最北端の能勢町にある国の天然記念物に指定されたケヤキの巨木。 観光でこの地を通過するので軽く寄ってみようと行ったのですが、想像以上に立派な木に驚きました。 マイナーな観光地だと思っていたら多くの人が訪れる人気観光地でもあり、駐車場に入るのも少し時間が掛かりました。 樹齢は1,000年以上、目通り幹回り14m、高さ30m、枝張り南北38m、東西42mと言う規格外の大きさには圧倒されます...

  • Tsunami and Storm Surge Disaster Prevention Station
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    4.5
    26 Reviews
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    Osaka Osakashi Nishi-ku Enokojima 2-1-64
    This facility is approximately a two-minute walk from Osaka City's Underground Chuo Line / Sennichimae Line's Awaza Station Exit 7, or a one-minute walk from Exit 10. This station was built upon the expectation of a tsunami or high tide as a result of a large earthquake in the Nankai Trough, which could occur in the near-future, as an educational facility to teach people what to do during an emergency. In the tsunami disaster experience theater (Dyna Cube), a video is played in front, on either side and beneath viewers. Enveloped by the sounds and images, visitors to the facility can experience the terrible force that a tsunami brings to bear.

    A must for everyone who wants to better understand how to stay safe from Tsunami. They have video, signs, and an audio guide in English and other languages.

  • The Japan Folk Crafts Museum, Osaka
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    3.5
    27 Reviews
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    Osaka Suitashi Senribampakukouen 10-5
    This folk crafts museum in Expo '70 Park is about a 15-minute walk from Bampaku-Kinen-Koen (Expo '70 Park) Station. It opened in 1970 as a pavilion for the Expo '70 World's Fair and then after then exhibition reopened in 1971 as the Osaka Japan Folk Crafts Museum. The museum is a one story (partly two story) reinforced concrete design and the progression from exhibition room one down to room four promotes leisurely appreciation of the exhibits. The paved courtyard is decorated with an arrangement of earthenware pots and jars and serves as an outdoor exhibition area. Exhibits include ceramics, textiles, lacquerware, braided goods, and more. Twice yearly a special exhibition is held in which private art both domestic and foreign is displayed.

    Not sure what to make of this museum. There was a very small permanent collection plus a temporary exhibition of pottery. We didnt stay long. My advice would be to skip this museum and spend more...

  • Ibaraki Municipal Kawabata Yasunari Literature Museum
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    4.0
    10 Reviews
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    Osaka Ibaraki-shi Kamichujo 2-11-25
    A literature museum situated along Kawabata-dori Street in Kamichujo, Ibaraki City. The museum's standing exhibition consists of 400 personal articles, letters, and photographs which introduce the life and world of Yasunari Kawabata, a Nobel Prize-winning author who lived in Ibaraki from early childhood until junior high school. The museum also holds special exhibitions on Kawabata as well as art shows by local artists.

    川端康成についての情報を得ることができる。また、無料なのでふらっと立ち寄ることができる。ノーベル賞についても面白く学べる。

  • EXPO '70 Commemorative Park
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    Osaka Suitashi Senribampakukouen
    This park opened in Osaka in 1970 for the Expo '70 World's Fair. The building originally used as the Steel Pavilion was renovated after 40 years and re-opened in 2010 as a museum. The museum showcases over 3,000 items and documents from the original Expo. The first floor is a free area but there is an entrance fee for the second floor. The museum shop sells limited Expo only items with the Expo's logo or the sun tower.
  • Kawachi Wine-kan
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    4.5
    7 Reviews
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    Osaka Habikino-shi Komagatani 1027
    An eight-minute walk from Komagatani Station on the Kintetsu Railway Minami Osaka Line. This museum is operated by the Kawachi Wine company, known for its Kawachi Wine brand of wines made exclusively with locally grown grapes. Inside the bright, open, and airy museum visitors can sample around 20 varieties of wines and plum liqueurs at the counter on the first floor, including select wines kept hidden away in the company's private wine cellar. The exhibition room on the second floor contains numerous examples of early wine labels, bottles, photographs, and other materials and exhibits which look back at the history of Kawachi Wine.

    梅酒が有名なのは聞いた事があるかも?府民割りツアーで利用! 案内も慣れてるみたいで、面白くおかしく説明が楽しかったです。施設もととのっており、ワイン、梅酒も購入後にすぐ発送手続きしてくれて便利です。

  • Osaka Exchange
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    Osaka Osaka-shi Chuo-ku Kitahama 1-8-16
    A financial products exchange center located in Kitahama 1-Chome, Chuo Ward, Osaka City. The exchange started out in the Edo period as the Yodoya rice market, considered the birthplace of securities trading in Japan. The current building was erected in 1935, and visitors may freely view its beautiful stained glass atrium and the OSE Gallery located on the fifth floor. The exchange also offers guided tours for groups of 10 or more people (advance reservation required).
  • Ikeda City Satsukiyama Children's Cultural Center
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    Osaka Ikeda-shi Ayaha 2-5-9
    This cultural center holds planetarium shows, events, and club activities primarily for Ikeda City elementary school students. Planetarium programs include a general show (for children), toddler and infant shows, and a relaxing planetarium show for adults, and during the summer, winter, and spring holidays, shows are held daily.
  • Panasonic Museum matushitakonosukerekishikan
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    4.5
    43 Reviews
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    Osaka Kadomashi Kadoma 1006

    京阪電鉄の西三荘駅から守口市方向に少し行ったところ。 Panasonicの敷地の一角にあります。 入場料は無料。 松下幸之助さんの教え、生い立ちなどからなる館と その西側にPanasonicの製品の歴史などからなる館があります。 Panasonicというか、松下電器の製品や流れているCMは 懐かしいものが多いです。 松下幸之助さんの教えには共感することが多いですが、 凡人としては、言うは易し行うは...

  • Sakai Dentosangyokaikan
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    52 Reviews
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    Osaka Met. Sakaishi Sakai-ku Zaimokuchounishi 1 Ding 1-30

    On the left side of the entrance is a display and sales area lined with Sakai kitchen knives and blades, and on the right side is a corner selling local specialties such as confections and incense...

  • Takatsuki Ritushiroatorekishikan
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    34 Reviews
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    Osaka Met. Takatsukishi Jounaichou 1-7

    高槻城跡にある、市立歴史館。入館無料で、高山右近や高槻城、高槻藩の歴史などが資料展示されています。続日本100名城のスタンプも設置されています。

  • Kobayashi Ichizo Memorial Museum
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    4.0
    38 Reviews
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    Osaka Ikeda-shi Tateishicho 7-17

    日本の全ての都市は鉄道を中心にデパート商業地のあるターミナルと温泉地行楽地を結んでその間に住宅地があるという構造に東京もそうだし地方都市もそうなっています。そのモデルを作ったのが小林一三でした。 宝塚歌劇も女性が主役で事業の中心になるとは当時誰が想像したかと思います。 小林一三の出資した会社の隅の会社で会社員生活を全うしたのでぜひ訪れたい場所でした。展示で感じたのは人を選ぶ目の確かさです。人を選ぶ...

  • Christian Ibutushiryokan
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    20 Reviews
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    Osaka Ibarakishi Sendaiji 262

    前から気になっていていたのでバスで行きました。最寄りのバス停に降りると史料館はこっちという矢印が道を渡った所にあり(帰りの茨木へ向かうバス停側)そのまま進むと途中で人が歩ける道がなくなります。左手に旧学校(現在は茨木の施設でキャンプとかできる場所)でそのままほぼ獣道を進むと今度は史料館はこっちと矢印が出てきます。。本当にここで大丈夫なのかと心配になりながらしばらく歩くと住宅がみえてきます。住宅街に...

  • Sakai Tatemachikarekishikanyamaguchikajutaku
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    19 Reviews
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    Osaka Met. Sakaishi Sakai-ku Nishikinochouhigashi 1 Ding 2-31

    阪堺電気軌道の綾ノ町駅から徒歩3分ほど。入館料は200円。清学院との共通入館料は250円。 主屋は江戸時代初期に建てられた町家建築(国重要文化財)。家主の山口家(屋号:越前屋)は庄屋を務めていた。また13代目の義一は東京帝大卒で、昭和初期には衆議院議員となり立憲政友会の幹事長にもなった人物。土間の天井は高く、太い梁が渡されている。観光ボランティアの方の解説によると、庭に置かれている手水鉢は正方形...

  • Minoo Municipal Local Museum
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    3.5
    19 Reviews
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    Osaka Minoo-shi Minoo 6-chome 3-1

    阪急箕面駅から徒歩約5分のところにあります。ビルの地下にあり、うっかり見過ごしてしまいそうですが、思っていたより多くの資料が展示されていました。無料なのがありがたいです。

  • Kusurino Doshomachi Museum
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    4.0
    15 Reviews
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    Osaka Met. Osakashi Chuou-ku Doshoumachi 2-chome 1-8

    境内にあるビルの3階にあり、入場無料の資料館です。置き薬や薬種業者の使っていた道具の展示など興味深いものばかりです。小さな資料館ですが、展示内容は充実していますので立ち寄ることをお勧めします。

  • Konoike Shinden Kaisho
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    3.5
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    Osaka Higashiosaka-shi Konoikemotomachi 2-30

    大阪府河内平野南部で、江戸時代中頃にの大和川を付替得た時に旧大和川の川筋などにの河床や堤防を中心に鴻池家による干拓事業で約160haの新田が作られました。現在でも「鴻池新田」の地名が残っています。会所は鴻池家から派遣された者が、農民から小作料や肥料代の徴収、幕府へ年貢上納、耕地、家屋の管理・補修、争いの調停などをしたようです。また本屋、屋敷蔵、文書蔵、米蔵、道具蔵、立派な庭も作られています。

  • Takatsuki Municipal History Folk customs Museum
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    3.5
    14 Reviews
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    Osaka Takatsuki-shi Jonaicho 3-10

    高槻城跡公園内にある、歴史資料館。建物は、旧笹井家住宅で、城下町高槻の江戸時代中頃の商家です。近代化されて、城下町の面影がほとんどなくなってしまった高槻に残る貴重な町家です。

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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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