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Description: Osaka (大阪市) is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai ... more

Osaka ... region of the main island of Honshū. The city is the capital of Osaka Prefecture. Often dubbed the second city of Japan, Osaka was historically the commercial capital of Japan, and to date the heart of Japan's second largest metropolitan area of Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto, whose population is 18.6 million.

Newest Review: ... n obs ervatory deck which you can walk round and see some fantastic views of Osaka. It also gives you an opportunity to see, close up, the gilt creatures that sit on the top of the castle's peaks. To me they looked like angry fish, but apparently they are meant to represent dolphins. As you walk through each floor towards the exit you will see various exhibits. ... more

... Most of the floors tend to deal with the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi, who appears more to be a dictator than the hero the Japanese see him as - his popularity mainly coming from a book written about him after his death. Although a great deal of it is pre...more

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Osaka: Neon on Water (2161 words)
by - written on 22/08/04 (Very useful, 349 readings)
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Osaka (City of Water) has been a major port and economic centre for hundreds of years originally trading with China and Korea. Located within the Kansai region it was almost completely devastated by the Allied bombing during the Second World War, yet has continued to act as one of the three major ports in Japan; sharing this privilege with Yokohama and nearby Kobe. Amongst many other things, Osaka once boasted of being a temporary capital before the first permanent capital was established in Nara and later gained renown due to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified Japan in the 16th century, and located his castle in the city. Today it is one of Japan's largest neon lit ... Read the complete review

Osaka On My Mind (2634 words)
by - written on 04/08/01 (Very useful, 982 readings)
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Having wanted to visit Osaka ever since I saw the Ridley Scott movie "Black Rain"(you might remember it as the film where Andy Garcia and Michael Douglas play two policemen, with the former being decapitated by motorcycle riding members of the Yakuza), my girlfriend's discovery of a cheap flight and hotel deal, which luckily coincided with a week long holiday from my workplace in Seoul, provided me with the perfect opportunity to visit a country that had long fascinated me. GETTING THERE AND TRAVELLING AROUND THE CITY As the setting sun shone red over Osaka Bay, my Japan Airlines flight flew low over the fishing trawlers and landed ... Read the complete review