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Fujita Museum and Osaka Castle

My niece proposed to go to “Fujita Museum.”

Fujita (Art) Museum has many antique oriental art objects collected by Denzaburo Fujita, who is a successful businessman and a baron in Meiji Period. The museum holds exhibitions twice a year, spring and autumn. The art objects are displayed in “Kura (warehouse or storehouse).” The exhibition rooms in the “Kura” storehouses utilize natural light in addition to artificial light, and have a cozy and calm atmosphere.

It took us a few minutes to reach Fujita Museum on foot from “Osakajo Kitazume” station on the JR Tozai line.

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This is the front garden of the museum and the building on the left side is “Tahoto (two-storied pagoda).”

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We entered the exhibition rooms from the entrance with the red roof.

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The following “Kura” storehouses are the exhibition buildings.

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The museum is planning to rebuild their buildings from June in this year. I worry about what will happen to the “Kura” storehouses.

There is “TAIKO-EN” across the street from the museum, in which there is a famous old Japanese-style restaurant, a wedding hall and a wedding banquet hall, a reception hall, a French restaurant, a steak house, and the like. We got discount coupons from the museum staff and went there. The following pictures are not of the temple but the Japanese-style restaurant.

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TAIKO-EN has a  Japanese-style garden called “Tsukiyama-shiki Kaiyuu-teien (circuit style garden),” having a pond in the center; you can walk around the pond. This garden is introduced in another page on my website.

Leaving TAIKO-EN, we went to “Kyu-Fujita Tei Ato” park, which is near the museum or TAIKO-EN. The park is in a part of a place where the Fujita residence buildings stood. The residence buildings were burned down during World War II.

This is the entrance of the park.

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The park has a wide ground having artificial hills, a pond, small woods, pathways, stone stairs, and the like.

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This area was very quiet and we could hear sometimes bird twitter and children’s laugh, but we can see modern skyscrapers near a station.

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In the woods, there was a wood bridge leading to a next park, but unfortunately it was prohibited to pass it now.

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There is a Japanese-style pond with good looking rocks and a bridge.

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You can see Fujita Museum (“Kura” storehouses on the left side) and TAIKO-EN (the building with rusty red roofs on the right side) from the park. 

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Then, we went to a restaurant to have lunch. This was once a guest house of Osaka-City, and is now run by a private business.
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Next, we visited Osaka Castle for the first time in a long time.

We moved to “Osakajo Koen” Station on the JR loop line, and walked while we saw “Osakajo Hall.”

This is a map of the Osaka Castle. This time, we went from “Aoya-mon” gate on the north side of the castle, through “Tenshukaku (castle tower or central tower)”, and to “Sakura-mon” gate on the south side.

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This is the “Aoya-mon” gate.

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There was a Japanese-style houseboat colored with gold floating on the inner moat.

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The stone sign says “Gokuraku-bashi (heaven bridge).”

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Crossing “Gokuraku-bashi” bridge, we saw stone walls made of big stones.

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This is a flight of stone steps, which may have been used by samurai (Japanese warriors), though it is prohibited to use them now.

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This is the “Tenshukaku” of the Osaka Castle.

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This is a well before the “Tenshukaku.”

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The cityscape from an observation room in the “Tenshukaku.”

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How big the stone is!

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This is the “Sakura-mon” gate.

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Going past the “Sakura-mon” gate, we went to “Hokoku-jinja” shrine.

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This is a street performance by a monkey performed in the precinct of the shrine.

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The old stone walls and outer moat, and modern tower buildings.

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The last view of the “Tenshukaku.”

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This is “Ichiban yagura (the first turret of the castle).”

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This open space is located on the south side of the castle, having a concert hall, a fountain, and the like.

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We walked a lot on that day.

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