OSAKA -- This summer Osaka is living up to its reputation as Japan's hottest city. Temperatures have not fallen under 25 since July 19.

But at its very heart, on the eastern portion of Nakanoshima, a small island sandwiched between the Dojima and Tosabori rivers, there is a lovely patch of green known as Nakanoshima Rose Garden.

It is the Osaka Garden, a gift from Japan in 1893 during the World Columbian Exposition. It's also Lisa Maurizi's favorite place in Chicago, a spot she researched after reading Erik Larsen's ...

Like a handful of other teamLab exhibitions such as the digitised forest in Kyushu, the digital art installations in this Osaka botanical garden are intended to highlight the area's flora and ...

OSAKA -- Perched high above the grounds of Expo 2025 in Osaka, the rooftop of the Grand Ring has come alive with early summer flowers -- transforming the skywalk into a floating garden.

Well that has just changed with the opening of "My Melody Cafe" in Osaka, the first ever permanent My Melody Cafe that Japan has ever seen, offering an array of very pink and very cute themed dishes.

Osaka, the largest city in western Japan, placed 38th on this year's list. The Times commended the city’s “game-changing” redevelopment project, Grand Green Osaka, which is creating a vast ...

On July 29 – a few weeks before closing its Borderless museum in Odaiba – digital art collective teamLab opened a new (and permanent) after-dark attraction in Osaka’s Nagai Park. teamLab ...