Yodo River cityscape
Like many rivers running through Japanese cities, the Yodo River has parks running along much of its banks as part of a flood control system …
Category: Osaka
Under the bridge in Osaka
Of course, I know that trains are loud, but I didn’t expect it to be as loud as it was standing under these rail bridges along the Yodo River. This is …
UFO launch pad
Hiroshi Hara, the architect behind the Kyoto Tower, also designed the Umeda Sky Building. There is nothing else like it anywhere. Do you see …
Osaka Castle and white cherry blossoms
The company that hired me for my first job in Japan, as an English teacher, had schools across the country. They gave me two options for where …
Osaka Monorail and Ferris wheel
Japan, a country of around 125 million people, has all sorts of transportation: regular commuter trains, bullet trains, airplanes, expressways …
Drums under the Sky Building
Here under architect Hiroshi Hara’s representation of a UFO launch pad is another creative work. One Japanese blog from 2012 refers to this art installation …