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| Best Places in Osaka: | | Osaka Castle, Osaka Museum of History, Osaka Science Museum, Umeda Sky Building, Sumiyoshi Taisha, Shitennoji, Japan Mint, Tsutenkaku, Open Air Museum of Old Farmhouses, Naniwa Palace Site Park, Osaka Dome, Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium | |
| Additional Information | | Population : 2,636,257 | |
Airport - The main international gateway to Osaka is Kansai International Airport (IATA: KIX), covered in a separate article. Domestic flights, however, arrive at Osaka International Airport, more commonly called Itami Airport (IATA: ITM), which despite the name hasn't had a single commercial international flight since 1994. Itami is connected to the Osaka Monorail, but the monorail is expensive and traces an arc around the northern suburbs, so to get to the centre of the city you will need to transfer to a suburban Hankyu railway line.
Shopping - Osaka has a vast number of shopping areas to choose from. Not only are there malls everywhere you turn but they also have a large number of shopping arcades which are basically roofed shopping streets, these are seen all across Japan, but Osaka has the longest in the country. Tenjinbashi-suji stretches from the road approaching the Tenman-gu shrine and continues for 2.6km going north to south. It has all types of stores including commodities, clothing and catering outlets on both sides of the arcade. Other key shopping areas are Den Den Town the electronic and manga/anime district which is as good as if not better than Akihbara and the Umeda district which has the Hankyu Sanbangai shopping mall and Yodobashi Camera which is a huge electrical appliance store which also offers a vast range of fashion stores, restaurants and a Shonen Jump store.
Hotels
Hilton Osaka - 8-8 Umeda 1-chome, Osaka, 530-0001, 06/6347-7111
Hotel New Otani Osaka - 4-1 Shiromi 1-chome, Osaka, 540-8578, 06/6941-1111
Rihga Royal Hotel - 5-3-68 Naka-no-shima, Osaka, 530-0005, 06/6448-1121
Osaka Dai Ichi Hotel - 1-9-20 Umeda, Osaka, 530-0001, 06/6341-4411
Shin-Osaka Washington Hotel Plaza - 5-5-15 Nishi-Nakajima, Osaka, 532-0011, 06/6303-8111
The Ritz-Carlton - 2-5-25 Umeda, Osaka, 530-0001, 06/6343-7000
Cafe\Restaurants
Kani Doraku - 1-6-18 Dotombori, Osaka, 06/6211-8975
La Tour - Swissotel Nankai Osaka, 1-60 Namba 5-chome, Osaka, 06/6646-5126
Lois Cafe Chinois - Hankyu Sanbangai B2 North Bldg., 1-1-3 Shibata, Osaka, 06/6359-1930
Los Inkas - 2F Kodama Leisure Bldg., 1-14 Doyama-cho, Osaka, 06/6365-5190
Negiyaki Yamamoto - Umeda East 3-25 Kadota-cho, Osaka, 06/6131-0118
Satoyama Cafe - 1F Yamauchi Bldg., 1-1-4 Tosabori, Osaka, 06/6459-1155 | |
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