Osaka Japan Travel Guide
With a population of 2.5 million, Osaka is Japan's third
largest and second most important city. Find Osaka visitor
travel information, transportation, attractions and train
ticket guides.
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Osaka Background
If Tokyo is Japan's capital, Osaka might be called
its anti-capital. Osaka is the main metropolis of
the Kansai region, and its inhabitants exhibit a
strong rivalry towards the Kanto region, from baseball,
food, popular culture, even to which side they ride
escalators (on the left in Tokyo, but on the right
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Featured Attraction: Osaka Castle |
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Construction on Osaka Castle (Osakajo)
started in 1583 on the former site of the Ishiyama
Honganji Temple, which had been destroyed by Oda
Nobunaga thirteen years earlier. Toyotomi Hideyoshi
intended the castle to become the center of a
new, unified Japan under Toyotomi rule. read
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Transportation: Japan Railways (JR) |
| Japan's four major islands, Honshu,
Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku are covered by an extensive
and reliable network of railways. Trains are a very
convenient means to explore Japan for foreign visitors,
not at last thanks to the Japan Rail Pass. |
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