Terwijl de meeste aandacht gaat naar de eindeloze uitgestrektheid van Tokyo blijft deze stad ferm in de schaduw staan.
Zeer onterecht als je het mij vraagt , hier enkele foto's om zijn sterk urbane sfeer weer te geven:

It's a national holiday on April 29th here in Japan. Nice weather, sunny day!
I strolled about through Osaka, Umeda down to Nakanoshima Island on the river.
My new Canon degital camera is so helpful in taking pictures.
So many pictures indeed!

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Nishi Umeda
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Hilton Osaka and Hilton Plaza West
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Sony Style shop and Herbis Plaza Ent
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Osaka Garden City
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Osaka Modo Gakuen
http://www.mode.ac.jp/osaka/facilities/index.html
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Umeda Sky Building
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Hotel Monterey Osaka
http://www.hotelmonterey.co.jp/osaka/
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The Ritz-Carlton Osaka
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The Tower Osaka
http://www.osaka50.jp/
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ABC Asahi Broadcasting Corporation
http://asahi.co.jp/
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The Tower Osaka
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Nakanoshima Island (right)
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Hanshin Express Highway
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Dojima River Forum
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Rihga Royal Hotel, where I workd for three years in the past!
http://www.rihga.co.jp/osaka/index.html
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Grand Cube Osaka
http://www.gco.co.jp/english/english.html

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Sumitomo Hospital
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Nakanoshima Center Building
http://www.nakanoshima-style.com/map/nakanoshimacenter.htm
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Buildings on Nakanoshima Island
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Kansai Electric Power Building
http://www.kepco.co.jp/
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The National Museum of Art, Osaka
http://www.nmao.go.jp/
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Osaka Science Museum
http://www.sci-museum.jp/
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Nakanoshima Mitsui Building
http://www.nakanoshima-style.com/map/nakanoshimamitsui.htm
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APA Hotel
http://www.apahotel.com/hotel/kansai/13_osakahigobashi-ekimae/index.html
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Daido Seimei Building
http://askayama.net/machicard/osaka/osaka/daidoseimei.html
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Nakanoshima Central Tower
http://www.nakanoshima-style.com/map/centraltower.htm
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Yotsubashi Street
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Asahi Shimbun Newspaper
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
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The Bank of Japan
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Osaka City Office
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Mido-suji main street
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Beautiful season.
I walked around Osaka Business Park and Osaka Castle.

Osaka Business Park (OBP)
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Osaka Castle Hall
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/7150/002im3.jpg

Hotel New Otani Osaka
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/9418/003as6.jpg

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Kinki Osaka Bank
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/4821/005hw7.jpg

Hotel New Otani Osaka
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/7510/006jn2.jpg

Twin 21
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/8443/008ao4.jpg

Tokyo Marine
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Panasonic and Fujitsu
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KDDI
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/1601/015si1.jpg

Hotel Monterey La Soeur Osaka
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/5025/016kz2.jpg

Tokio Marine Plaza
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/2446/017la7.jpg

Yomiuri TV
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Panasonic Center (Twin 21 and IMP)
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Crystal Tower
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Osaka Castle
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/4565/025ff2.jpg

Osaka Castle and NHK
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/1280/026oo3.jpg

OBP
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/5609/027fk4.jpg

Osaka Castle Park Map
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Osaka Prefectural Government
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Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters
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NHK and Osaka Museum of History
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OBP and Osaka Castle
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Wow ziet er echt een mooie en propere stad uit! Ver van hier :).

Ze houden er zo te zien nogal van de kleur grijs. Op basis van deze foto's krijg ik een beetje de indruk van een kleurloze en weinig levendige metropool.

^^ dat vind ik iets overdreven


These are views from Floating Garden Observatory at Umeda Sky Building,
173 meters from the ground level.

Only 10 minutes walk from Japan Railway Osaka station!

No windowpanes, just feeling nice breeze!

http://maps.google.co.jp/maps?hl=ja&ie=UTF8&t=k&ll=34.704969,135.489879&spn=0.002068,0.004817&z=18



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Thanks for your interest in Osaka.
Usaully I take Japan Railway to commute to Osaka every day.
Osaka station area is rapidly changing.

http://maps.google.co.jp/maps?hl=ja&ie=UTF8&ll=34.701022,135.497421&spn=0.004137,0.009634&t=k&z=17

JR Osaka station (right), more than 450,000　people use a day!

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This Post Office will be a tall building (180m) in 2011.

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/8792/001mc4.jpg


http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/5537/003cc6.jpg


Umeda Sky Building (right)

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/7608/005nv9.jpg

Hilton Plaza West

http://maps.google.co.jp/maps?hl=ja&ie=UTF8&ll=34.699915,135.495305&spn=0.001034,0.002409&t=k&z=19

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Hankyu Railway Umeda (Osaka) station connecting Kobe and Kyoto.
Automated ticket checking sysytem was introduced by this company mora than 40 years ago!

http://maps.google.co.jp/maps?hl=ja&ie=UTF8&ll=34.70597,135.498751&spn=0.004137,0.009634&t=k&z=17

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Hankyu Department store will be a 187m building in 2011.

http://maps.google.co.jp/maps?hl=ja&ie=UTF8&ll=34.702305,135.498969&spn=0.001034,0.002409&t=k&z=19

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2 panootjes:

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Wat een gruwels zijn die Aziatische steden toch. Geen beetje cultuur, geschiedenis, eigenheid. Alles is in diezelfde internationale stijl gebouwd. Mocht je mij nu vertellen dat bovenstaande foto's in New York genomen zijn; niets, op af en toe een Kanjiteken na, zou mij erop wijzen dat ik verkeerd zit. Als dat de richting wordt waarin de geglobaliseerde wereld uit zal draaien.