Places to visit in Osaka, Japan
9 places to visit in Osaka, Japan, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Daisen Kofun, Dotonbori, Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Osaka volume.
1 UNESCO World Heritage site · 7 Famous places to visit · 1 Hidden gem
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Osaka (1)
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Daisen Kofun
The largest of the Mozu tombs in Sakai, a keyhole-shaped burial mound ringed by moats and attributed to Emperor Nintoku. It is so large that its shape is best grasped from the observation floor of Sakai City Hall nearby; the wooded mound itself is closed to visitors.
Famous places to visit in Osaka (7)
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Dotonbori
Osaka's great nightlife strip, running along a canal through Namba and once the city's theatre district. Giant illuminated signs, the Glico running man among them, hang over the street, along with mechanical crabs and dragons above stalls selling takoyaki.
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Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan
An aquarium by Osaka Bay that was the largest public aquarium in the world when it opened in 1990. Visitors spiral down around a huge central tank representing the Pacific Ocean, home to a whale shark, past smaller tanks for the seas of the Pacific Rim.
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Osaka Castle
A castle raised on high stone walls and moats in the centre of Osaka, first built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the 1580s as he unified Japan. The present keep is a 1931 reconstruction that holds a museum, set in a large park known for plum and cherry blossom.
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Shitenno-ji
Founded in 593 by Prince Shotoku, this Osaka temple is often called the first Buddhist and oldest officially administered temple in Japan. Its buildings have been rebuilt many times, last in 1963, keeping the old straight-line layout of gate, five-storey pagoda and main hall.
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Tsutenkaku
A 108-metre steel tower rising over the old Shinsekai district of Osaka, with its main observation deck at 91 metres. Up top sits Billiken, a smiling good-luck figure whose feet visitors rub for fortune, and the streets below are full of kushikatsu bars.
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Umeda Sky Building
Two 40-storey towers in Osaka's Umeda district, joined at the top by a ring-shaped deck and by escalators in glass tubes that cross the open air between them. The open-air Floating Garden Observatory up there looks across the city to Osaka Bay.
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Universal Studios Japan
A theme park on Osaka Bay that opened in 2001 as the first Universal Studios outside the United States. Alongside rides drawn from Universal's parks in Florida and Hollywood, it has a Super Nintendo World and The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
Hidden gems in Osaka (1)
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Sumiyoshi Taisha
The head shrine of all the Sumiyoshi shrines across Japan, in the south of Osaka. Its main halls give their name to the Sumiyoshi-zukuri style of shrine building, and a steeply arched red bridge, the Sorihashi, crosses the pond at the entrance.
Collecting in Osaka
What are the best places to visit in Osaka?
LOQAH lists 9 places in Osaka. The best known include Daisen Kofun, Dotonbori, Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, Osaka Castle and Shitenno-ji. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Osaka?
9, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Osaka?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Osaka before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Osaka and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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