Osaka · Sights

Best Art & Exhibits in Osaka

6 places, each checked by our team.

• Kamigata Ukiyoe Museum 上方浮世絵館Namba / Dotonbori — A small four-storey gallery in the Hozenji alleys of Namba devoted to Kamigata-e, the vivid woodblock portraits of Osaka kabuki actors, with a…
• Koji Kinutani Tenku Art Museum 絹谷幸二 天空美術館Umeda — Bright, energetic paintings by Koji Kinutani, a Person of Cultural Merit, displayed 27 floors up in the Umeda Sky Building.
• Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka 大阪中之島美術館Nakanoshima — A black cube of a museum opened in 2022 after 40 years of planning, with a giant cat sculpture by Kenji Yanobe on its lawn, a strong collection of…
• National Museum of Art, Osaka 国立国際美術館Nakanoshima — Japan's national museum of contemporary art, built almost entirely underground on Nakanoshima beneath a sculptural entrance of bent steel tubes by…
• Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts 大阪市立美術館Tennoji Park — A grand 1936 museum in Tennoji Park with outstanding Buddhist sculpture, Chinese painting and Japanese art, fully reopened in March 2025 after a…
• Sakai Alphonse Mucha Museum 堺 アルフォンス・ミュシャ館（堺市立文化館）Sakai — One of the world's major collections of Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha, shown in rotating exhibitions next to JR Sakaishi Station.