Junkudō

Osaka


This large bookshop has a great selection of English-language books (on the 3rd floor) and English travel guides (2nd floor). It's inside the Dōjima Avanza Building, about 10 minutes' walk from JR Osaka Station.


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1. O-hatsu Ten-jin

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Hiding in plain sight amid the skyscrapers of Umeda, this 1300-year-old shrine owes its fame to one of Japan's best-known tragic plays (based on true…

2. Osaka City Hall

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A mid-1980s building incorporating some elements from the 1921 City Hall.

3. National Museum of Art, Osaka

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Originally built for Expo '70, this underground construction by architect Cesar Pelli now houses Japan's fourth national museum. The building – like a…

4. Osaka Central Public Hall

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Built in 1911, this dramatic, red-brick neo-Renaissance building is an important cultural property.

5. Museum of Oriental Ceramics

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This museum has one of the world's finest collections of Chinese and Korean ceramics, with smaller galleries of Japanese ceramics and Chinese snuff…

6. Umeda Sky Building

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Osaka's landmark Sky Building (1993) resembles a 40-storey, space-age Arc de Triomphe. Twin towers are connected at the top by a 'floating garden' (really…

7. Naka-no-shima-kōen

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Osaka's first public park, created in 1891 at the eastern end of Naka-no-shima, is a good place for an afternoon stroll or picnic lunch.

8. Tenjinbashi-suji Shōtengai

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Japan's largest covered shopping arcade, which began as a wet market during the Edo period (1604–1868), stretches 2.6km over six blocks. The majority of…