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The area from Namba to Shinsai-bashi is called Minami. In Minami, locals and tourists alike can enjoy the city atmosphere of "Kuidaore," Osaka. Everywhere, you'll find wonderful restaurants offering great dishes accompanied by Osaka's famous brand of hospitality. You can also visit cultural spots to see what the Naniwa (old name for Osaka) culture used to be like.
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This is the typical Osaka. The city of "Kui-daore" is a place whose name means; bankrupt due to spending too much on food. Dotonbori presents its symbolic night view amidst a haze of red and blue neon signs including the signboard of Glico, a famous confectionary company. If you head south from Dotonbori, you'll find Osaka's busiest downtown streets filled with shopping centers and restaurants all along Ebisubashi-Suji, Sennichi-mae, and Namba.
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Hozenji Alley still retains the calm, old atmosphere of Naniwa (the old name for Osaka). Along the narrow, stone-paved road can be seen many Japanese restaurants and bars. At Hozenji Temple, you'll see a statue of Fudomyo-ou (Acala), and also the Kompira hall. Visitors pour water over Mizukake Fudo (the Watered Fudo), a statue of Acala as they worship at the temple.
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The first thing people see when they visit the Osaka Shochiku-za is the impressive great arched gateway.
Built in 1923, it was Osaka's first Western-style theater and stood in original form until being reconstructed in 1997. Today it is used as a drama theater and offers performances of various genre of play such as Kabuki and musicals.
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This Momoyama-style building was designed in the Karaha style and faces Mido-Suji. Its splendid facade attracts many people's attention and when lit up at night, it becomes even more gorgeous.
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4-3-25, Namba, Chuo-ku, Osaka |
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A shopping street known for its kitchenware and tableware, this narrow street is crowded with pots, tableware, sign boards, and lanterns. The street contains many specialty stores for those in need of cooking supplies and tableware. They also sell takoyaki (octopus ball) pans and okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake) hotplates, both a favorite of the majority of Osakans.
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Sennichimae, Namba, Chuo-ku, Osaka |
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Wahha Kamigata is a unique museum introducing "owarai" culture (meaning; comedy). It describes the history of the "kamigata" culture (originating in the area around Kyoto and Osaka).Videos of popular old comedy shows and the performances of master comedians are also available to view.
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12-7, Namba-sennichimae, Chuo-ku, Osaka |
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11am-6pm(Admission until 5.30pm) |
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This theater offers Manzai (a Japanese stand-up comedy), Rakugo (a Japanese traditional sit-down comedy), and Yoshimoto Shinkigeki (a stage comedy performed by Yoshimoto Kogyo comedians). Performers present their popular gags and ad-lib jokes so anyone can enjoy Osaka's famous brands of comedy entertainment.
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11-6, Namba-sennichimae, Chuo-ku, Osaka |
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Presenting traditional performing arts typical of the Kansai area in addition to regular performances of Bunraku, this is the place to enjoy Kabuki, Buyo (Japanese traditional dance), Hogaku (traditional Japanese music), and other performing arts.
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1-12-10, Nipponbashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka |
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"Nippon-bashi of Osaka is often compared with the Akihabara district of Tokyo. East VS West, as has so often been the case in Japanese history, this is Osaka's version of a great electrical equipment town where war, although a rather exciting price war only, never seems to end.
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4, Nipponbashi, Naniwa-ku, Osaka |
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The street along the northern side of the Dotonbori River is an extensive, neon-lit, downtown nightspot. After the neon signs come on at sunset they seem to become brighter as the night goes on.
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The Shinsai-bashi area consists of Shinsai-bashi-Suji, the American Village and the European street running east-west along Suo-cho-Suji. Osaka's biggest shopping arcade runs north to south and is located in the east of Mido-Suji. The combination of old and new in Shinsai-bashi provides for a most harmonious blend.
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Suo-cho-Suji, spreading from Mido-suji and heading east, is called European Street. A stone pavement and London-style streetlights create a somewhat European mood.
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American Village is located in the west of Mido Suji and is one of the most pulsating areas in Minami. As a source of fashion for young people, it offers many import shops selling secondhand clothes as well as gift shops, galleries, and used record shops.
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Shinsekai is located in the western part of Tennoji Park. Its landmark is the Tsutenkaku Tower which is one of the symbols of Osaka. Jan-jan alley is a famous shopping street along a narrow lane where small and cheap restaurants, bars that open in the morning, Japanese chess clubs and movie theaters sit side-by-side. It is a place filled with the cheap, casual and friendly atmosphere of "shita-machi" (a residential and commercial area where local people and their families have been living since time immemorial).
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1-18-6, Ebisu-higashi, Naniwa-ku, Osaka (Tsutenkaku) |
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A large-scale park, not unlike a green paradise, Tennoji Park is located in the center of the Tennoji district. It covers a huge 260,000 square meters and in its grounds offers a Japanese garden named Keitakuen, a museum, a zoo and a playground equipped with wooden equipment for children to play on.
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Chausuyama-cho, Tennoji-ku, Osaka |
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Japan's fist big temple was founded by Shotoku Taishi in 593 and in the 1500 years since has been struck by disaster and reconstructed many times. The layout of temples in the then Asuka period is still preserved in the modern version.
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1-11-18, Shitennoji, Tennoji-ku, Osaka |
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Sumiyoshi Head Shrine is the senior most shrine of more than 2000 Sumiyoshi shrines all over Japan. It is dedicated to the Shinto god of safe voyages, martial arts, and Japanese poetry. As a result it has been a local point of worship since ancient times.
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