Guidebook for Naniwa-ku, Ōsaka-shi

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Guidebook for Naniwa-ku, Ōsaka-shi

Food Scene

The food cooked by chef who brushed up the cooking skill in various restaurants is exquisite. You can enjoy the genuine Chinese cuisine in a comfortable space. Since a seating capacity is 70 seats.
95 locals recommend
Chinese Cuisine Kinfukurai
1-chōme-3-7 Nipponbashi
95 locals recommend
The food cooked by chef who brushed up the cooking skill in various restaurants is exquisite. You can enjoy the genuine Chinese cuisine in a comfortable space. Since a seating capacity is 70 seats.
A restaurant specializing in the savory pancakes known as okonomiyaki. This well-established restaurant uses only the freshes ingredients when cooking its various types of okonomiyaki, as well as delicious course menus.
9 locals recommend
Chibo Okonomiyaki
9 locals recommend
A restaurant specializing in the savory pancakes known as okonomiyaki. This well-established restaurant uses only the freshes ingredients when cooking its various types of okonomiyaki, as well as delicious course menus.
Famous tasty takoyaki shop
162 locals recommend
Wanaka Namba
3-chōme-7-24 Nanba
162 locals recommend
Famous tasty takoyaki shop
Kani Doraku Crab Restaurant is world famous for the six and a half meter moving crab on the front of the restaurant. Kani Doraku Crab Restaurant is in Dotonbori, a popular tourist destination in Namba Osaka, which is famous for its restaurants.
601 locals recommend
Kani Doraku Dotombori Honten
1-chōme-6-18 Dōtonbori
601 locals recommend
Kani Doraku Crab Restaurant is world famous for the six and a half meter moving crab on the front of the restaurant. Kani Doraku Crab Restaurant is in Dotonbori, a popular tourist destination in Namba Osaka, which is famous for its restaurants.

Drinks & Nightlife

146 locals recommend
Japanese Bar YAMATO
Souemonchō-4 Chuo Ward
146 locals recommend
An astonishing world of magic is right before your eyes! This is the place where you can enjoy drinks along with magic tricks and talks by a rich variety of magicians, from Japan's No. 1 card trick magician to dubious magicians and hypnotists. In addition to seats at the bar, a VIP room is also available for a group of 6 to 20 persons.
71 locals recommend
Bar & Magic A-omoro
2-chōme-9-17 Nishishinsaibashi
71 locals recommend
An astonishing world of magic is right before your eyes! This is the place where you can enjoy drinks along with magic tricks and talks by a rich variety of magicians, from Japan's No. 1 card trick magician to dubious magicians and hypnotists. In addition to seats at the bar, a VIP room is also available for a group of 6 to 20 persons.
Standing drink tavern. You can enjoy feel free to Japanese "sake"
41 locals recommend
日本酒と私
2-chōme-3-24 Sennichimae
41 locals recommend
Standing drink tavern. You can enjoy feel free to Japanese "sake"
Famous standing dring tavern. Enjoy Japanese "sake" and Italian wine along with both nationality dishes.
47 locals recommend
Watoi
1-chōme-4-19 Sennichimae
47 locals recommend
Famous standing dring tavern. Enjoy Japanese "sake" and Italian wine along with both nationality dishes.

Sightseeing

Osaka Castle Park is a large 106.7 hectare park which includes many facilities, gardens and attractions including Osaka Castle and its cherry blossom which are considered one of Japan’s Top 100 Cherry Blossom Spots.
1375 locals recommend
Osakajo
Osakajo Chuo Ward
1375 locals recommend
Osaka Castle Park is a large 106.7 hectare park which includes many facilities, gardens and attractions including Osaka Castle and its cherry blossom which are considered one of Japan’s Top 100 Cherry Blossom Spots.
A bustling commercial street that is representative of the Minami area of Osaka, always busy with playhouses and food shops from the Edo Period to today.
3588 locals recommend
Dotonbori
Dotonbori-9-1 Chome Chuo Ward
3588 locals recommend
A bustling commercial street that is representative of the Minami area of Osaka, always busy with playhouses and food shops from the Edo Period to today.
Kuromon Ichiba Market served as the main market for the people of Osaka for more than 170 years, everyone from restaurant chefs to housewives have come here, drawn by the taste, freshness and variety of its products. Kuromon Ichiba Market has a total length of 600 meters with 170 shops, providing fresh and best quality meat, fish, vegetables, eggs and other ingredients from around the country and abroad.
2932 locals recommend
Kuromon Market
Nipponbashi-1-chōme-16 Chuo Ward
2932 locals recommend
Kuromon Ichiba Market served as the main market for the people of Osaka for more than 170 years, everyone from restaurant chefs to housewives have come here, drawn by the taste, freshness and variety of its products. Kuromon Ichiba Market has a total length of 600 meters with 170 shops, providing fresh and best quality meat, fish, vegetables, eggs and other ingredients from around the country and abroad.
Hozenji Temple is a very small is a Buddhist temple, that was established in 1637 and which enshrines Mizukakefudo. This temple feels very out of place in the modern Dotonbori with all its modern commercial lighting, so it is great to see that it has survived all this time. Hozenji Temple features a statue that is completely covered by moss which continues to thrive through people watering it when making a prayer.
551 locals recommend
Hozenji Yokocho street
2 Chome-7-21 Higashishinsaibashi
551 locals recommend
Hozenji Temple is a very small is a Buddhist temple, that was established in 1637 and which enshrines Mizukakefudo. This temple feels very out of place in the modern Dotonbori with all its modern commercial lighting, so it is great to see that it has survived all this time. Hozenji Temple features a statue that is completely covered by moss which continues to thrive through people watering it when making a prayer.

Parks & Nature

42 locals recommend
Naniwanomiyaato Park
Hōenzaka-1-chōme-6 Chuo Ward
42 locals recommend
Namba Yasaka Shrine has long been worshipped as the tutelary deity of the Namba district. The shrine was once flourishing, possessing shichido garan (seven standard buildings of a Buddhist temple complex) and 12 attached temples.
347 locals recommend
Namba Yasaka Shrine
2-chōme-9-19 Motomachi
347 locals recommend
Namba Yasaka Shrine has long been worshipped as the tutelary deity of the Namba district. The shrine was once flourishing, possessing shichido garan (seven standard buildings of a Buddhist temple complex) and 12 attached temples.

Arts & Culture

Dotombori's new tourist spot is a place to enjoy Takoyaki (the octopus-filled snack sold on Osaka street corners), learn about the roots of "konamon" and experience making wax samples of Takoyaki. Enjoy takoyaki served with carefully selected champagne and wine in a B1 basement bistro. On the 1st floor, you can watch the technique of Takoyaki experts firsthand, and eat the Takoyaki of the famous store Takoya Dotombori Kukuru. In the Konamon Historical Museum on the 2nd floor, see historical documents about takoyaki's famous brown sauce as well as konamon varieties other than Takoyaki. On the 3rd floor, you can make Takoyaki samples, which is just right for a souvenir. Enjoy yourself through.
154 locals recommend
Dotombori Konamon Museum
1-chōme-6-12 Dōtonbori
154 locals recommend
Dotombori's new tourist spot is a place to enjoy Takoyaki (the octopus-filled snack sold on Osaka street corners), learn about the roots of "konamon" and experience making wax samples of Takoyaki. Enjoy takoyaki served with carefully selected champagne and wine in a B1 basement bistro. On the 1st floor, you can watch the technique of Takoyaki experts firsthand, and eat the Takoyaki of the famous store Takoya Dotombori Kukuru. In the Konamon Historical Museum on the 2nd floor, see historical documents about takoyaki's famous brown sauce as well as konamon varieties other than Takoyaki. On the 3rd floor, you can make Takoyaki samples, which is just right for a souvenir. Enjoy yourself through.
National Bunraku Theatre plays a significant role in preserving, developing and passing on the traditional art forms of the Kamigata (Osaka-Kyoto), especially the art of Ningyo Joruri Bunraku (puppet drama).
1339 locals recommend
National Bunraku Theater
1-chōme-12-10 Nipponbashi
1339 locals recommend
National Bunraku Theatre plays a significant role in preserving, developing and passing on the traditional art forms of the Kamigata (Osaka-Kyoto), especially the art of Ningyo Joruri Bunraku (puppet drama).
Comedy theater presended by Yoshimoto Kogyo Ltd
1331 locals recommend
Nanba Grand Kagetsu
11-6 Nanbasennichimae
1331 locals recommend
Comedy theater presended by Yoshimoto Kogyo Ltd

Shopping

One of biggest discounted general stores in Japan
1471 locals recommend
Don Quijote Dotombori
7-13 Souemonchō
1471 locals recommend
One of biggest discounted general stores in Japan
Namba Walk is an underground shopping centre (mall) in Namba central Osaka.
324 locals recommend
Namba Walk
1 Chome-3-Sennichimae Chuo Ward
324 locals recommend
Namba Walk is an underground shopping centre (mall) in Namba central Osaka.
Bic Camera Namba is one of around 40 Bic Camera stores found throughout Japan, which dispite the name sell computers, mobile phones, audio and video equipment, plus of course cameras. Most Bic Camera stores are large sites, which consist of several floors and nomally include restaurants and cafes. This Bic Camera store is in Namba Osaka.
858 locals recommend
BIC CAMERA Namba Outlet Store SAURUS2
2-chōme-10-1 Sennichimae
858 locals recommend
Bic Camera Namba is one of around 40 Bic Camera stores found throughout Japan, which dispite the name sell computers, mobile phones, audio and video equipment, plus of course cameras. Most Bic Camera stores are large sites, which consist of several floors and nomally include restaurants and cafes. This Bic Camera store is in Namba Osaka.
A 150m-long shopping street lined with specialty stores with every cooking utensil and kitchen item available. The Doguyasuji Festival on Oct 9 is an event where various tools are on sale.
376 locals recommend
Sennichimae Doguyasuji Shopping Street
14-5 Nanbasennichimae
376 locals recommend
A 150m-long shopping street lined with specialty stores with every cooking utensil and kitchen item available. The Doguyasuji Festival on Oct 9 is an event where various tools are on sale.
Takashimaya" One of biggest department stores in Japan
本高砂屋 高島屋大阪店
5-chōme-1-5 Nanba
Takashimaya" One of biggest department stores in Japan

Essentials

165 locals recommend
KOHYO
2-chōme-1-17 Minatomachi
165 locals recommend
97 locals recommend
Central Square Life
1-chōme-2-3 Minatomachi
97 locals recommend