A waterway connecting Kyoto and Osaka Bay, long closed for flood control, reopened Sunday as Japanese transport authorities began operating a lock on the Yodo River. The water route between the major ...

OSAKA--Endangered Japanese eels are thriving in a seemingly unlikely spot, the Dotonborigawa river that runs through the city’s busy Minami entertainment district. Eels were caught there for the ...

MINOO, Osaka Prefecture--More than a century ago, the "kawadoko" riverside dining experience along the Minoogawa river, which flows from the famed Minoo Otaki waterfall here, was a popular ...

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 ...

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

The newest museum on the island of Nakanoshima took almost 40 years to complete. It was first conceived in 1983, with a proposal to set up an art institution to ...