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36 unique things to do, within 50 km30 mi. 90 in total

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Make noodles where they began

Make noodles where they began

Make noodles where they began

The only one on Earth

Make noodles where they began

Cup Noodles Museum Osaka Ikeda · Free

Climb inside the Tower of the Sun

Climb inside the Tower of the Sun

Climb inside the Tower of the Sun

Climb inside the Tower of the Sun

Climb inside the Tower of the Sun

The only one on Earth

Climb inside the Tower of the Sun

Tower of the Sun

Eat takoyaki without sauce at the shop that named it

The only one on Earth

Eat takoyaki without sauce at the shop that named it

Aizuya

Order one zenzai and receive two bowls, then splash the moss-covered Fudō

Order one zenzai and receive two bowls, then splash the moss-covered Fudō

The only one on Earth

Order one zenzai and receive two bowls, then splash the moss-covered Fudō

Meoto Zenzai

See bunraku in the city where it was born

See bunraku in the city where it was born

The only one on Earth

See bunraku in the city where it was born

National Bunraku Theatre

Collect a beckoning cat every month for four years at Sumiyoshi

Collect a beckoning cat every month for four years at Sumiyoshi

Collect a beckoning cat every month for four years at Sumiyoshi

Collect a beckoning cat every month for four years at Sumiyoshi

Collect a beckoning cat every month for four years at Sumiyoshi

The only one on Earth

Collect a beckoning cat every month for four years at Sumiyoshi

Sumiyoshi Taisha

See Buddhas made from the ashes of two million people

See Buddhas made from the ashes of two million people

See Buddhas made from the ashes of two million people

See Buddhas made from the ashes of two million people

See Buddhas made from the ashes of two million people

The only one on Earth

See Buddhas made from the ashes of two million people

Isshin-ji Temple · Free

The only one on Earth

Eat fried maple leaves on the waterfall path at Minoh

Hisakuni Kosendo

The only one on Earth

See Osaka's own ukiyo-e, the actor prints Edo never made

Kamigata Ukiyoe Museum

The only one on Earth

Order kitsune udon where the fried tofu first went in

Usamitei Matsubaya

The only one on Earth

Spend an afternoon at the yose built for Kamigata rakugo

Tenma Tenjin Hanjotei

Take a lift down and walk under the Aji River through Japan's first immersed-tube tunnel

Take a lift down and walk under the Aji River through Japan's first immersed-tube tunnel

Take a lift down and walk under the Aji River through Japan's first immersed-tube tunnel

Take a lift down and walk under the Aji River through Japan's first immersed-tube tunnel

Take a lift down and walk under the Aji River through Japan's first immersed-tube tunnel

The only one in Japan

Take a lift down and walk under the Aji River through Japan's first immersed-tube tunnel

Ajigawa River Tunnel · Free

Circle Japan's largest keyhole tomb, then see it from the city hall roof

Circle Japan's largest keyhole tomb, then see it from the city hall roof

Circle Japan's largest keyhole tomb, then see it from the city hall roof

The only one in Japan

Circle Japan's largest keyhole tomb, then see it from the city hall roof

Daisen Kofun · Free

Tour a working incinerator that Hundertwasser designed, free

Tour a working incinerator that Hundertwasser designed, free

Tour a working incinerator that Hundertwasser designed, free

The only one in Japan

Tour a working incinerator that Hundertwasser designed, free

Maishima Incineration Plant · Free

Walk the Mint's riverside cherry passage in its one week of the year

Walk the Mint's riverside cherry passage in its one week of the year

Walk the Mint's riverside cherry passage in its one week of the year

Walk the Mint's riverside cherry passage in its one week of the year

Walk the Mint's riverside cherry passage in its one week of the year

The only one in Japan

Walk the Mint's riverside cherry passage in its one week of the year

Japan Mint · Free · Seasonal

Ride a 1928 tram car that still carries passengers

Ride a 1928 tram car that still carries passengers

Ride a 1928 tram car that still carries passengers

Ride a 1928 tram car that still carries passengers

Ride a 1928 tram car that still carries passengers

The only one in Japan

Ride a 1928 tram car that still carries passengers

Ebisucho Station

Tour Japan's first malt whisky distillery

Tour Japan's first malt whisky distillery

Tour Japan's first malt whisky distillery

The only one in Japan

Tour Japan's first malt whisky distillery

Suntory Yamazaki Distillery

The only one in Japan

Walk through twelve farmhouses moved from Iwate to Kagoshima, in Japan's first open-air museum

Open-Air Museum of Old Japanese Farm Houses

Stand on the dam of Japan's oldest reservoir, then walk through a slice of it

Stand on the dam of Japan's oldest reservoir, then walk through a slice of it

Stand on the dam of Japan's oldest reservoir, then walk through a slice of it

Stand on the dam of Japan's oldest reservoir, then walk through a slice of it

Stand on the dam of Japan's oldest reservoir, then walk through a slice of it

The only one in Japan

Stand on the dam of Japan's oldest reservoir, then walk through a slice of it

Osaka Prefectural Sayamaike Museum · Free

Ride all eight free city ferries across the working rivers

The only one in Japan

Ride all eight free city ferries across the working rivers

Senbonmatsu Ferry · Free

Watch a hundred boats carry the gods down the river at Tenjin Matsuri

Watch a hundred boats carry the gods down the river at Tenjin Matsuri

Watch a hundred boats carry the gods down the river at Tenjin Matsuri

Watch a hundred boats carry the gods down the river at Tenjin Matsuri

The only one in Japan

Watch a hundred boats carry the gods down the river at Tenjin Matsuri

Osaka Tenmangu Shrine · Free · Seasonal

Laugh for twenty minutes on command at Hiraoka Shrine

The only one in Japan

Laugh for twenty minutes on command at Hiraoka Shrine

Hiraoka Jinja · Free · Seasonal

Collect a papier-mâché tiger on the medicine street

Collect a papier-mâché tiger on the medicine street

Collect a papier-mâché tiger on the medicine street

The only one in Japan

Collect a papier-mâché tiger on the medicine street

Sukunahikona Shrine · Free · Seasonal

Read the history of Japan's largest Korean community where it lives

Read the history of Japan's largest Korean community where it lives

Read the history of Japan's largest Korean community where it lives

Read the history of Japan's largest Korean community where it lives

Read the history of Japan's largest Korean community where it lives

The only one in Japan

Read the history of Japan's largest Korean community where it lives

Osaka Korea Town History Museum

Eat the 1910 curry that comes already mixed, with a raw egg on top

Eat the 1910 curry that comes already mixed, with a raw egg on top

Eat the 1910 curry that comes already mixed, with a raw egg on top

Eat the 1910 curry that comes already mixed, with a raw egg on top

Eat the 1910 curry that comes already mixed, with a raw egg on top

The only one in Japan

Eat the 1910 curry that comes already mixed, with a raw egg on top

Jiyuken

The only one in Japan

Shout for bamboo at Toka Ebisu, then knock at the back door

Imamiya Ebisu Shrine · Free · Seasonal

Feel the floats take the corner at full run in Kishiwada

The only one in Japan

Feel the floats take the corner at full run in Kishiwada

Kishiwada Danjiri Kaikan · Free · Seasonal

Walk Japan's first state temple free on the 21st, among the market stalls

Walk Japan's first state temple free on the 21st, among the market stalls

Walk Japan's first state temple free on the 21st, among the market stalls

Walk Japan's first state temple free on the 21st, among the market stalls

Walk Japan's first state temple free on the 21st, among the market stalls

The only one in Japan

Walk Japan's first state temple free on the 21st, among the market stalls

Shitennoji Temple · Free

Watch rice planted by hand in Sumiyoshi's sacred paddy

Watch rice planted by hand in Sumiyoshi's sacred paddy

Watch rice planted by hand in Sumiyoshi's sacred paddy

Watch rice planted by hand in Sumiyoshi's sacred paddy

Watch rice planted by hand in Sumiyoshi's sacred paddy

The only one in Japan

Watch rice planted by hand in Sumiyoshi's sacred paddy

Sumiyoshi Taisha · Free · Seasonal

Climb a 4.5 m mountain and collect the certificate

Climb a 4.5 m mountain and collect the certificate

Climb a 4.5 m mountain and collect the certificate

Climb a 4.5 m mountain and collect the certificate

Climb a 4.5 m mountain and collect the certificate

The only one in Japan

Climb a 4.5 m mountain and collect the certificate

Tempozan Park · Free

Eat omurice in the 1950 sukiya house of the restaurant that named it

The only one in Japan

Eat omurice in the 1950 sukiya house of the restaurant that named it

Hokkyokusei

Eat kushikatsu at the 1929 Shinsekai counter and keep to the one-dip rule

Eat kushikatsu at the 1929 Shinsekai counter and keep to the one-dip rule

Eat kushikatsu at the 1929 Shinsekai counter and keep to the one-dip rule

The only one in Japan

Eat kushikatsu at the 1929 Shinsekai counter and keep to the one-dip rule

Kushikatsu Daruma Shinsekai Main Shop

Walk the full 2.6 km of Japan's longest shopping street

Walk the full 2.6 km of Japan's longest shopping street

Walk the full 2.6 km of Japan's longest shopping street

Walk the full 2.6 km of Japan's longest shopping street

Walk the full 2.6 km of Japan's longest shopping street

The only one in Japan

Walk the full 2.6 km of Japan's longest shopping street

Tenjinbashi-suji Shopping Street · Free

The only one in Japan

Drink at Japan's oldest surviving grand cabaret

Grand Cabaret Miss Osaka

The only one in Japan

Drink mix juice at the Shinsekai shop credited with inventing it

Sennariya Coffee

Eat Okinawan in Taishō, where one resident in four has Okinawan roots

The only one in the state

Eat Okinawan in Taishō, where one resident in four has Okinawan roots

Sanks Hirao · Free

Viewpoints over Osaka

Places to look at the city, the plains or the mountains from.

7 entries

See the city from the Floating Garden Observatory, Umeda Sky Building

See the city from the Floating Garden Observatory, Umeda Sky Building

See the city from the Floating Garden Observatory, Umeda Sky Building

See the city from the Floating Garden Observatory, Umeda Sky Building

See the city from the Floating Garden Observatory, Umeda Sky Building

See the city from the Floating Garden Observatory, Umeda Sky Building

Umeda Sky Building

Go up to Harukas 300 at the top of Abeno Harukas

Go up to Harukas 300 at the top of Abeno Harukas

Go up to Harukas 300 at the top of Abeno Harukas

Harukas 300

Look down on Daisen Kofun from MI-TE Sakai, Sakai City Hall 21F

Look down on Daisen Kofun from MI-TE Sakai, Sakai City Hall 21F

Look down on Daisen Kofun from MI-TE Sakai, Sakai City Hall 21F

Look down on Daisen Kofun from MI-TE Sakai, Sakai City Hall 21F

Look down on Daisen Kofun from MI-TE Sakai, Sakai City Hall 21F

Look down on Daisen Kofun from MI-TE Sakai, Sakai City Hall 21F

Sakai City Hall · Free

Look over the bay from Sakishima Cosmo Tower Observatory

Look over the bay from Sakishima Cosmo Tower Observatory

Sakishima Cosmo Tower Observatory

Ride the Tempozan Giant Ferris Wheel

Ride the Tempozan Giant Ferris Wheel

Ride the Tempozan Giant Ferris Wheel

Tempozan Giant Ferris Wheel

Ride the red HEP FIVE Ferris wheel

Ride the red HEP FIVE Ferris wheel

Ride the red HEP FIVE Ferris wheel

Ride the red HEP FIVE Ferris wheel

Ride the red HEP FIVE Ferris wheel

Ride the red HEP FIVE Ferris wheel

HEP FIVE

Go up Tsūtenkaku and rub the Billiken's soles

Go up Tsūtenkaku and rub the Billiken's soles

Tsutenkaku

Landmarks in Osaka

Worth stopping for, but a few minutes rather than an afternoon. Statues, murals, markers and monuments.

3 entries

Rub the Billiken's soles at Tsūtenkaku

Rub the Billiken's soles at Tsūtenkaku

Tsutenkaku

See the lion-head stage at Namba Yasaka Shrine

See the lion-head stage at Namba Yasaka Shrine

See the lion-head stage at Namba Yasaka Shrine

Namba Yasaka Shrine

Photograph the Tower of the Sun from outside

Photograph the Tower of the Sun from outside

Photograph the Tower of the Sun from outside

Photograph the Tower of the Sun from outside

Photograph the Tower of the Sun from outside

Photograph the Tower of the Sun from outside

Tower of the Sun

More experiences in Osaka

Not unique, and not pretending to be. Good things to do here that you could also do somewhere else.

44 entries

Find the noodles of a 1958 street at Takimi Kōji

Takimikoji

Walk Osaka Castle's keep and moats

Walk Osaka Castle's keep and moats

Walk Osaka Castle's keep and moats

Walk Osaka Castle's keep and moats

Walk Osaka Castle's keep and moats

Walk Osaka Castle's keep and moats

Osaka Castle

Ride the gold gozabune round the castle moat

Ride the gold gozabune round the castle moat

Osaka Castle Park

See whale sharks at Kaiyukan

See whale sharks at Kaiyukan

Kaiyukan

Ride Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan

Ride Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan

Ride Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan

Ride Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan

Ride Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan

Ride Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan

Universal Studios Japan

Bathe in the world-themed floors of Spa World

SPAWORLD HOTEL & RESORT

Ride the Tower Slider down Tsūtenkaku

Ride the Tower Slider down Tsūtenkaku

Tsutenkaku

Walk 1,400 years of Osaka at the Museum of History

Walk 1,400 years of Osaka at the Museum of History

Osaka Museum of History

Spend a day at Minpaku (National Museum of Ethnology)

Spend a day at Minpaku (National Museum of Ethnology)

Spend a day at Minpaku (National Museum of Ethnology)

Spend a day at Minpaku (National Museum of Ethnology)

National Museum of Ethnology

See the Japan Folk Crafts Museum Osaka

See the Japan Folk Crafts Museum Osaka

See the Japan Folk Crafts Museum Osaka

Japan Folk Crafts Museum Osaka

Walk Expo '70 Commemorative Park's Japanese garden

Walk Expo '70 Commemorative Park's Japanese garden

Expo '70 Commemorative Park

Visit NIFREL

Visit NIFREL

Visit NIFREL

Visit NIFREL

Visit NIFREL

NIFREL

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