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Welcome Osaka Japan !!
Japanese people are welcoming the fact that you visit to Osaka, from the bottom of their heart.

There is the left runner in shopping district, Dotonbori made illuminations.
To be Japan called Glico is the design of the box of the caramel of a very famous candy maker.

The castle of the middle of the image is Osaka Castle.
You can enter Osaka Castle. In the inside, an exhibition is considered to be it various things. In addition, You can put on the helmet of a samurai and the military commander for 300 yen. The woman can try on a Japanese traditional kimono. Of course the photography is possible.

There is very large Himeji Castle in Hyogo. There is registered with a world heritage.
However, Himeji Castle restores it for five years from 2009 and is going to construct it.

The right back of the castle is a "Tower of Sun". so big... "taiyonotou"

It is Tsutenkaku where the right of the "Tower of Sun" is the most famous in Osaka. There is it in Naniwa-ku of Osaka-city. Height can be in the tower at 100 meters. There is an image of God like the child called the Billiken in the upper part of the tower. It is said to become happy his sole when touch it.

There is Universal Studios Japan in Konohana-ku of Osaka-city.

The building of a red line of the next is a very big aquarium called "Kaiyukan".
Please go by all means if you come to Osaka. The place is Tempozan Harbor Village.

A certain doll is called "Kuidaore Taro" just before the middle of the image.

As for the meaning of kuidaore, food is very delicious and employs most of the money in hand and says that I was not able to do anything.

It was the symbolic doll of the shop, but the shop was these days and closed a shop.
However, it is loved by a lot of people, and the doll is still displayed in Dotonbori.
Because I step on d level, the size has more than 2 meters.
The model of the crab of the image is a shop sign called "Kanidouraku".
There is this in Dotombori, too.

The image right and left side is a building of Nihonbashi.
A scale is small from Akihabara of Tokyo, but it is famous electricity street.

There is not it to an image, but, in front of Osaka Station,
there is "Yodobashi Camera Umeda" of a very big electric shop.

Osaka recommends a subway to the movement if gone on a trip in Osaka after it is good, and examining it because a lot of people are wide.


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On July 7th 　call " Tanabata "(the star festival day {old China story}), "Heisei OSAKA the Legend of the Milky Way"　was held in Osaka, and 50,000 blue lights floated on the Okawa River. The blue light called inori-boshi (prayer star) is a blue LED in a plastic capsule. You can enjoy the one night only Milky Way on the Okawa River.

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Osaka is not a foppish town.
Osaka is a commercial town.
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