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Osaka Midosuji Street Walking Trip

2013-12-21 20:34:00 | Walking Trip
I would like to inform Midosuji walking trip.
From Osaka Umeda to Nanba, about 4km trip.


Start point is JR Osaka station.
Osaka station's upper street has a illumination festival 'Twilight Fantasy' 17:00-23:00.
Go to Sky Farm, through a long Escalator.
Osaka station building has a Sky Farm at 14 floor.

Green onion, Chinese cabbage, and grapes are grown at this farm.
Go down to ground floor, I start walking at Midosuji street.

Going through Kita-Shinchi, enter Midosuji street.
Midosuji street is famous for Ginkgo trees.

Midosuji Illumination continue from December 1 to January 19, 17:00-23:00.
Midosuji illuminamtion is divided 4 ereas, Pink zone, Yellow zone, White zone, Blue zone.
At Yodoyabashi station,Osaka Central Public Hall building is coverd with 'Hikari Emaki'illumination.
This illumination is projecting illumination to Public hall building.
Please enjoy this illumination.
From December 15 to 25.

This Yodoyabashi has a Keihan railway station.
Ride a Keihan train, you can go to Kyoto main areas.

From Yodoyabashi to Honmachi is a business town, there are many coffee shops.
Please take a coffee brake.

Between Honmachi to Shinsaibahi, Nanba shrine is exixting.

This shrine main hall is made of reinforced concrete building.
This shrine, is a Shinto shrine dedicated to Emperor Nintoku.
North of Shinsaibahi has a many shops of exclusive boutiques and luxury foreign car.
Some rich men are watching expensive cars.
Going forward, you find Hotel Nikko Osaka building.

At Shinsaibashi, west area is an America village, east area is an Europe village.

America and Europe village were started from 1980 period.
Takoyaki shop 'Koga ryu' is famous, usually lots of people are waiting.
This Takoyaki is cheap and good taste, I recommend you
buy Takoyaki and eat at triangle park.

Europe vllage has many expensive clothes shops.
But nowadays some discount shops are added at this village.

Going to south, you arrive at Dotonbori street and river.
This river was cleaned and beautified two yearsago.
At night river side is lighted up, walk Daikoku bridge and Ebisu river makes you good feeling.

Walk Dotonbori street west, you arrive at Minatomachi river place.
This river place has invent places, live house.

Return to Midosuji street, go south, you find Swiss hotel Nankai Osaka and Takashimaya building.

This Takashimaya building has Nanba station for Subway, Nankai, Kintetsu railway.
Nankai railway is connected to Kansay Airport, Wakayama.
Kintetsu railway is connected to Nara, Kyoto, Nagoya.

This Nanba station is the goal.
This walking trip needs 2 or 3 hours.

That's it.