Osaka Travel Journal

This location index page links to all of my journal entries about any time I spent in Osaka, Japan. This page is a sub-index of the Japan location index page. That, in turn, is a sub-index of the Asia location index page.

Now, Nara

Still operating from my Osaka base for today, I took a day trip to Nara. Including the walk to the nearby train station, getting to...

Osaka Museum of History

The main sight I explored this afternoon in Osaka was the Osaka Museum of History. Before that, I visited a temple. And I ended the...

Mittera Temple, Etc.

This was a slow, take-it-easy, odds-and-ends kind of morning for me as far as sightseeing in Osaka went. I started at Mittera Temple and then...

Tsutenkaku Tower and More

Today, I started my first full day in Osaka by going up a tower, the Tsutenkaku Tower. I followed that with some nearby sights, a...

Oh, Osaka

Osaka is close to Kyoto, which I left this morning. The express train took less than 30 minutes to travel to Osaka’s central station, even...