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Minami-Osaka

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Rinku Premium Outlets

4.0

780 Reviews

Shopping

Osaka Izumisanoshi Rinkuouraiminami 3-28

The biggest outlet mall in Kansai, you’ll find this facility in Izumisano City, Osaka Prefecture across from the Kansai International Airport inside “Rinku Town.” It has two areas, the “Main Side” and the “Sea Side,” and each is two floors. You’ll find top-class overseas brands as well as casual brands, lifestyle goods, and more in the approximately 200 shops onsite. It feels like a beautiful resort, and there’s even a playground for kids. It’s popular as a spot where you can spend all day shopping.

This large outlet is a collection of international brands. Apart from household names, it also hosts some notable local boutiques. The area is vast and permits a pleasant shopping experience even...
Kanku View Hall Sky View

4.0

272 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Osaka Izumisanoshi Senshukukoukita 1

This is an observation deck overlooking the runway where visitors can see aircraft taking off and landing right before their eyes. From the “Sky Deck” on the fifth floor, visitors have a 360-degree panorama view of the Kansai Airport, and the powerful and exciting scene of aircraft skimming across the sky overhead as they fly away. There is a “play area” with play equipment for children in the rooftop garden. Inside the facility there is a museum where you can learn about Kansai Airport and airplanes, a restaurant where you can taste in-flight meals, a shop offering original goods, and is an enjoyable place to spend the day for both adults and children. There is a free shuttle bus from Bus No. 1 in front of Terminal 1.

Currently on reduced service. Only open on weekends and holidays. You take the free shuttle bus from Terminal 1, bus stop 1. Shuttle pickup from Terminal 1 is at the top and bottom of the clock...
Kishiwada Castle

4.0

113 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Osaka Kishiwadashi Kishikichou 9-1

Kishiwada Castle is located in Kishiki-cho, in Kishiwada City. Kishiwada Castle, also known as Chikiri Castle, is said to have been built by Wada Takaie, a relative of Kusunoki Masashige. The castle tower was built in 1585, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi's grandfather, Koide Hidemasa, began to expand the castle. The current three-tier / three-story castle tower was built in 1954, after the previous five-story burned down when it was struck by lightning in 1827. During the time of the Meiji Restoration, with the tower and gate destroyed, only the moat and stone walls still stood. In 1943, the site was designated as a historical site by Osaka Prefecture, and in 2014, Kishiwada Castle Garden (Hachijin no Niwa) was designated as a Place of Scenic Beauty. It is also a famous flower-viewing spot.

After visiting many castles in Japan, it was a pleasure to visit one with an intimate feel. There are some exhibits on a couple of floors, but not enough to make it feel more like a museum than a...
Daisen Park

4.0

103 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Sakaishi Sakai-ku Mozusekiunchou 2-204

This park in Sakai City is located 15 minutes' walk from Mozu Station, near the mausoleum of Emperor Nintoku. This heavily symbolic park is steeped in nature and history. Within the park are open greens, a gourd-shaped pond, children forest, museum, tea house, Japanese gardens and many other fascinating places to visit. The park was selected to be included in Japan's top 100 historical parks list. Near the gourd-shaped pond, approximately 400 various types of cherry tree have been planted, including Yoshino cherry trees and Oshima cherry trees. When in full bloom, the whole area is painted a beautiful florid pink. The park's hill and pond circuit-style garden is also a popular place for locals to relax.

I came here during autumn season, the best spot in this park was the Japanese garden. Looking at huge number of cherry trees, I believe it will be a good spot during cherry blossom season in...
Sakai Green Museum Harvest Hill

3.5

86 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Sakaishi Minami-ku Hachigamineji 2405-1

This agricultural park opened in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture in 2000 and is focused on providing agricultural experiences to visitors. The site is large enough to fit eight Koshien Stadiums, and gorgeous rape blossoms and cosmoses bloom along with other seasonal flowers. Visitors can enjoy a shepherd dog show, horseback riding, cow milking, a petting zoo, and several other offerings. There’s also a grass ski slope, bicycles built for entertainment, and various areas perfect for moving your body, making it popular with families. There’s even a classroom for making sausages and handmade bread.

園内のシルバニアパークに行きたい幼稚園生を連れて行きました。シルバニアのキャラクタの貸衣装を着てパーク内を走り回る姿に連れて行った甲斐がありました。大人ならすぐ分かるクイズに正解すると小さなキャラクタ人形ももらえます。カピバラの餌やり、スワンボート、そり滑り、昆虫爬虫類館での触れ合い体験など子供達の遊び場としてもデートの場所としてもお勧めです。
Rinku Park

4.0

123 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Izumisanoshi Rinkuouraikita 1-271

This seaside park stretches out across the coast opposite Kansai International Airport. The park itself is divided into two areas, Symbol Garden and Seaside Garden. On the Symbol Garden side, there are rock gardens with seasonal flowers and an inland sea cove. The inland sea cove is especially popular with children, as they can touch the sea water there, so parents often visit it with their children. On the Seaside Garden side, the main attraction is the long pebble covered marble beach. The landscape is particularly beautiful at night, and the beach is also used as a venue for cosplay competitions and the Rinku fireworks festival.

In contrast to the lively outlet full of last-minute shoppers, Rinku Park is like an other-worldly oasis. Directly opposite to the Kansai airport, this lush, pleasant open area offers a serene...
Sakai City Museum

4.0

89 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Sakaishi Sakai-ku Mozusekiunchou 2 inside Daisen Park

This museum is located in Daisen Park, just 500 meters from the JR Hanwa Line's Mozu Station. The museum was opened in 1980, as a memorial project for the city's 90th anniversary. Many items pertaining to Sakai City's history, art and customs are preserved displayed in the museum's permanent exhibition, including reproductions of a map of Emperor Nintoku's stone mausoleum and a terracotta unearthed from Emperor Nintoku's tomb in the Kofun / Nintoku Tomb exhibition, and a model of the city of Sakai and a Sakai (matchlock) gun in the Free City Sakai exhibition.

Really enjoyed this museum. The excellent exhibits and friendly stall. But the best was the video, with English subtitles - a great overview of the area. Well worth seeking this out & spending an...
Kansai Cycle Sports Center

4.0

51 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Kawachinagano-shi Amanocho 1304

"This amusement park is located in Amano-cho, Kawachinagano City. Located in Kongo-Ikoma-Kisen Quasi-National Park, here you can have fun with a variety of bicycle-themed attractions, including a square where you can ride some 800 unique and unusual bicycles, a three-kilometer-long cycling course, and a cycle-powered coaster you can speed up by pedaling harder. There's also the ""Fore Reso!"" outdoor waterpark open in summer."

遊戲算多，但人唔多，唔洗點排隊玩，唔似香港咁煩。我地自駕去，唔見到有巴士站，如果無車要黎呢度，可能幾麻煩。有個泳池，但太多人了，根木係戲水唔係游水，各樣設施都可以，畀幾高分。但你話全關西最好玩就見仁見智
Tennen Onsen Nobeha no Yu (Habikino Main Branch)

4.5

26 Reviews

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Osaka Habikinoshi Hirose 186-3

This day hot spring facility is located three minutes away from the Habikino Interchange. It is a healing space with highly unique baths and saunas designed to make you feel like you are surrounded by nature. There are six main rotenburo open-air baths, and you can enjoy their health effects at three different temperatures. The most popular one is luxurious natural hot spring where you can freely use source water that gushes directly from underground. In addition, there are a rich number of varieties including iwaburo (onsen made of rocks) and kosoburo (onsen with fragrant grasses and herbs). There are three kinds of saunas, and the Yakuseki Hanjunbo is recommended. Using ten types of yakuseki (medicinal elements) such as germanium and rock salt, it has a detox effect.

広い駐車場に車を停め受付に行きました。受付で決済機能付きのロッカーキーを渡されて入浴場に入りました。入浴料は千円でした。ただ岩盤浴などの付加サービスには追加料金が必要だったと思います。露天風呂がとても広くて充実していました。温度は熱過ぎずちょうど良かったです。そしてサウナもたくさんありました。総合的に大人も子供も楽しめる温泉施設でした。私たちは飲食せずにこちらの施設を後にしましたが、飲食や休憩を...
Hochigai Shrine

3.5

74 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Osaka Sakaishi Sakai-ku Kitamikunigaokachou 2-2-1

Locals call the deity of this shrine Mr. Hochigai. It has been here for many years, and has long guided them on matters of orientation, the land and Feng Shui, so they don't build in inauspicious ways. The shrine is located in Sakai City, on the north side of Emperor Hansei's tomb, and was once a way-point on the Kumano pilgrimage. Many Kumano pilgrims would pray here for a safe journey. An annual festival is held at the shrine every year on May 31st. Worshippers who have offered up an earthen-wrapped chimaki (steamed rice dumpling) to this deity receive a chimaki sweet on the day of the festival.

In Ancient and Medieval Japan, they used to believe that leaving for the right direction is very important especially when you make a long journey or move to another house. Hochigai literally...
Sakai Plaza of Rikyu and Akiko

4.0

87 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

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...
Fudouguchikan

4.0

49 Reviews

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Osaka Izumisanoshi Ogi 7

This hot spring inn is part of the Inunakiyama Onsen Center Annex, and only 30 minutes by car from the Kansai International Airport, is often called the closest hot spring to the rest of the world. It is a simple cold sulfur (hypotonic, alkaline, cold water) spring, which is said to be effective for neuralgia, muscle pain, chills and chronic gynecological diseases. The abundant beauty of Mt Inunakiyama and the Inunaki River, known for their richness of nature and beautiful valleys, are visible from the guest rooms and the outdoor baths. The inn also proudly serves local dishes, made with delicious, fresh vegetables from the Senshu region and local sake. Visitors can have the perfect day-trip bathing and enjoying the food with the inn's day-trip plan.

We had a combination of rooms with private onsen and those without which meant one room had western style bed and the others futon. We thoroughly enjoyed the experience of wearing kimonos, the...
Fujii-dera Temple

4.0

59 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Osaka Fujiderashi Fujidera 1-16-21

Located five minutes from Fujii-dera Interchange, in Fujii-dera 1 Chome, this temple, belonging to the Omuro school of the Shingon sect of Buddhism, is the fifth temple of the Saigoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage. The temple was established by Gyoki in accordance with Emperor Shomu's imperial prayer, in the year 725. The main hall, where the national treasure, the thousand-armed Kannon is enshrined, also incorporates struts called kaerumata and lavish carvings in its construction. The wood carvings adorning the traditional gable roof are intimidating, and the four-pillared temple gate (the West Gate) is also an Important Cultural Property. It was built by order of Toyotomi Hideyori, in the Momoyama Period. Fujii-dera Temple has also been famous for over a thousand years for the Wisteria flowers that continue to bloom here, and during full bloom, their purple blossoms flutter in the wind.

西国三十三ケ所を巡る中で行ってきました。ちょうど「藤まつり」というイベントが行われている最中で、境内の藤棚を写真に収めている参拝客が多かったです。中でも白色の藤はお天気が良かったこともあって、風に揺られて陽に透けるような美しさがとても見ごたえがありました。一部のお堂（だと思います）は改修中で、そのお堂に使われるのかどうかは分かりませんが、屋根の瓦に願い事を書いて納めるというものがありました（3...
Kanshinji Temple

4.5

38 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Osaka Kawachinaganoshi Teramoto 475

This temple is located in Teramoto, Nagano City. It was originally called Unshinji, when En no Ozunu built it in the year 701. Kukai visited this temple at the beginning of the Heian period, and when he visited again in 815, he named it Kanshinji. It is said, that this is when the Nyoirin Kannon carving, a Buddhist statue rarely shown to the public, which Kukai made with his own hands, was designated as a National Treasure. Kondo, which is also a National Treasure, is the oldest designated national treasure in the prefecture of Osaka. The temple is also famous for its Cherry blossoms and Autumn leaves, and has been selected as a natural landmark in the prefecture's top 100 natural places in Osaka.

観心寺は上記の通り楠木正成にゆかりのある歴史ある寺院でもあり、楠木正成の首塚が祭られている。しかしそればかりではなく、じつは後村上天皇陵もここ観心寺にあるのだから驚きだ。観心寺には勇ましい楠木正成の像がある。楠木正成は観心寺にゆかりがあり、湊川の戦で討ち死にしたが、この観心寺の建掛塔を三重塔に建立中だったときだったのだ。残念ながら建掛塔は途中で中断したため現在の姿になったが、こうしたゆかりもある...
Domyoji Tenmangu Shrine

4.0

45 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Osaka Fujiderashi Doumyouji 1-16-40

This Shinto shrine on the eastern side of Domyo-ji Temple is located approximately a three-minute walk fromDomyoji Station. Domyoji Tenmangu Shrine is made in the style of Gongen-zukuri, a style of Shinto architecture in which the main hall, offering hall and the worship hall are connected via an intermediate passageway. This is a shrine enshrining Sugawara no Michizane and his aunt. Many festivals are held related to Sugawara no Michizane who is worshipped as the god of scholarship. There are mounds covering reverently buried calligraphy brushes in the precincts, and the Brush Festival, thanking the used brushes and praying to improve at calligraphy, is held annually. Visitors can also see many national treasures including belongings of Lord Michizane on the days that the treasury is open.

道明寺駅下りて徒歩数分。商店街を抜けた先にあります。週末早朝訪問。炎天下とあってウォーキングやジョギングにはハードル高め。北野や太宰府と学問の神様にあやかりたい方には天満宮巡礼の旅もいとをかし。撫で牛もありますが、時節柄お触りは控えた方が良いでしょう。
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...
Mizumadera Temple

4.0

40 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Osaka Kaidukashi Mizuma 638

This temple is located in Mizuma, Kaizuka City. While it is commonly called Mizuma Kannon, its official name is Mizuma-dera Temple. According to legend, the temple was built by Gyoki, on Emperor Shomu's orders. The temple's name comes from the meeting of the Kogi River, flowing down from Mt. Katsuragi, and the Kibitani tributary River. The current main hall was rebuilt in 1811, with the temple having been razed multiple times by the fires of war. The principle object of worship in the temple is a Kannon that drives away misfortune. The Shogatsu Hoe and Senbon Mochitsuki festivals, which are held every New Year, are designated Intangible Cultural Properties of Kaizuka City.

南海電車の貝塚駅から水間鉄道に乗り換え、終点で降りる。奈良時代に行基が創建したという由緒のある寺。瀧から仙人が現れて聖観音菩薩を行基に渡したという伝説がある。寺の周囲に塀がないので開放的でいい。
Tonboike Park

4.5

33 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Kishiwadashi Sangayamachou Oike Ass 701

This general public park is in the hilly area of Sangayama Town, Kishiwada City, Osaka Prefecture. It contains lush green and various areas for the enjoyment of kids and adults alike. There’s “Tonbo no Yugu” (Dragonfly’s Playground), which features 45 different types of play structures, which makes it popular for both small children and older children. There are plenty of spots where you can enjoy nature, such as the “Rose Garden” that blooms with over 2,300 roses in spring and fall, the “Fall Foliage Valley” boasts stunning leaf colors in the autumn, and a big lake with birds swimming in it. Complete with large grassy fields and plains, this is a great spot for a family picnic.

トンボ池公園はとても広い公園で遊具の規模も大きく休日等にはたくさんの利用者が押し寄せます。トンボの遊具、蝶の遊具、大滑り台、大池、流れの広場、水と緑の音楽広場、野原の広場、トンボハウス、大芝生広場、ふれあいの森等、たくさんの広場があり、隣接して、テニスコートもあります。一部エリアではバーベキューを楽しむこともできます。
Osaka Nishikinohama Beach Park

3.5

36 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Osaka Prefecture Kaizuka-shi 859-1

This seaside park is in Sawa, Kaizuka City, Osaka Prefecture and contains Nishikinohama Beach Park, a popular Osaka sea bathing spot. The blue sea, sand, and pine forest are gorgeous, and many visitors come to enjoy the one-kilometer stretch of beach. Surrounding a monument shaped like a sailboat mast is a sports field and several play structures, while the east side of the park has tennis courts and a baseball field. The “cherry blossom viewing hill” is covered in cherry blossoms in spring, and there are zones where you can enjoy seasonal blooms as well. Families can enjoy the day here.

The worst beach Ive ever been. If you are looking for a plastic ocean with and share the sand with all kind of garbage, so, here is your place. You can find all kind of plastic, bottles, cans, etc...
Kishiwada City Namikiri Hall

4.0

14 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Osaka Kishiwadashi Minatomidorimachi 1-1

The multipurpose hall is approximately ten-minutes by foot from Kishiwada Station. It was opened in April, 2002 as a symbol of the Kishiwada Bay Area and looks over Osaka Bay. In the building you'll find various sized halls, a multipurpose hall, a cultural exchange hall, conference rooms, and studios. When arranged for its primary use of the appreciation of traditional Japanese performance art the main hall holds 1,552 seats but it can be rearranged to serve a multitude of functions, anything from theater, opera, ballet and classical concerts to conventions.

4階の会議場を利用しました。廊下からは海が見渡せて心地よいですね。毎日のように地元のおじいちゃんっぽい人が歩き回っていて少し不気味ですが…

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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."