For a spot of respite, stand still at Hōzen-ji, a temple near Namba Station, before reentering the fray. A series of ...

Digital Entertainment City Namba is an extended reality (XR) project in Osaka that integrates AI guides across the city. The new initiative runs on the Mawari DePIN. DePINs that were initially ...

A total of 16 foreign hotel brands opened in Kansai in 2024, including new properties and rebrands -- the most ever for a single year, according to Osaka-based think tank Asia Pacific Institute of ...

Osaka. Image © Dick Thomas Johnson via Wikipedia under CC BY 2.0 Explore Osaka's architectural highlights, featuring a curated selection of historical, modern, and ...

Osaka isn’t just a city of towering skyscrapers and sumptuous street food. Instead, it’s a playground for travellers who know ...

At 10 p.m. on the night before the Osaka Marathon, my wife Jasmin and I were about to sleep. Then we looked outside. It was ...

OSAKA—The Osaka municipal government will start to ban smoking on all public streeets across the city on Jan. 27 next year, Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama said Nov. 12. Yokoyama announced the starting ...

OSAKA--The global outcry over the death of George Floyd spread to Osaka on June 7, with hundreds of Japanese and foreign nationals marching through the city center to oppose police brutality ...

Osaka is a dynamic city with a dynamic history. Photographer Alfie Goodrich captures the food culture of the "Kitchen of Japan," the waterways that made it a commercial center, and the ...

Ltd., one of Japan’s oldest private railway operators, Meta Osaka Co., Ltd and e-stadium Co., Ltd., to create the “Digital Entertainment City Namba.” This groundbreaking urban development ...

The Japanese city of Osaka has imposed a smoking ban on public streets to become more visitor-friendly ahead of this year’s World Expo. Around 160 countries and regions are taking part in Expo ...

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