#Osaka Castle Tower/Toyotomi Hideyoshi built Osaka Castle on a hill. The top floor of the tower is used for an observation deck, and we can learn about the castle's history as we descend from there.

#Osaka Castle Park (105 ha)/The park spreads out around two moats, which are filled with such flowering trees as plum, peach, and cherry blossoms.

#Former Kishu Palace Garden / The gardens of Wakayama Castle have been relocated here, allowing you to see both the actual castle tower and its reflection in the pond at the same time.

#Hokoku Shrine/Passing through the Torii Gate, we'll be greeted by a statue of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Japanese people visit the shrine to learn about his success stories from a peasant background.

#Tenma-Ichiba Market/Since the mid-17th century, merchants could unload agricultural products from the river and sell them in a market. Twenty years ago, a section of the market was redeveloped into a high-rise building.

#Tenjinbashisuji Shopping Street/The 2.6km long shopping street, located along the approach to Osaka Tenmangu Shrine, with 600 stores selling food, beverages, and other merchandise. It's one of Osaka's most iconic shopping streets, often featured in TV street interviews.

>Osaka Tenmangu Shrine/This shrine enshrines the great 9th-century scholar Sugawara Michizane and is renowned as the deity of learning. It is also considered to Tenjin (Deity of the Sky), the patron deity of local merchants who hold the Tenjin Festival, featuring fireworks and a parade of 100 boats down the Okawa River.

>Nakanoshima Park (10.6 ha) / Located in the heart of Osaka City, this area was sandwiched between two rivers, and had a row of warehouses owned by the local lords since the 17th century. In the 20th century, Osaka's first modern urban park opened, comprising waterfront and rows of cherry blossom trees on both banks, horizontal bridges, and towering buildings characterized Osaka's landscape.

#Dotonbori Shopping Street/At the beginning of the 17th century, there were 20 theaters along the canal. Merchants who provided tickets and rest places gathered to form the shopping street. 140 stores (400m), with flashy neon signs and moving signs, offer local foods to the visitors.

>Shinsaibashisuji Shopping Street/The street was established as a connection between the entertainment district in the north and the theater district in the south. In modern times, department stores and specialty shops were established, and it became a prestigious trend-setting area where Osaka merchants aspired to own a shop. It is 580m long and lined with approximately 180 stores.

#Shinsekai District (9.2 ha/meaning "New World")/Built at the beginning of the 20th century with a design that combined the Parisian tower (Eiffel Tower) and New York amusement park (Coney Island). The amusement park closed after 10 years, but from the mid-20th century, the area developed into a district featuring a playhouse, movie theater, amusement facilities, and restaurants serving local cuisine.

#Tsutenkaku Tower(meaning "Lead to Heaven") / Osaka's symbolic tower, standing 108 meters tall in the center of the Shinsekai district. It's also housed “Billiken,” known as the Lucky Mascot (“the god of things as they ought to be” is curved below, an artwork by Americans).

*Reservations for date and time are required to enter the observation deck.