Museum · Tenjinbashi

Osaka Museum of Housing and Living 大阪くらしの今昔館

A full-size Edo-period Osaka street of the 1830s rebuilt indoors on the 9th floor of an office building, where you can walk through shops and houses, rent a kimono, and see the lighting change from dawn to night.

About

On the 9th floor of the Housing Information Center building, the Kurashi no Konjakukan recreates a block of Osaka's Tenma district around 1830 at real scale, built with traditional carpentry: merchant houses with lattice fronts, a bathhouse, a pharmacy, a book lender, alleyway nagaya and a fire watchtower. You take off your shoes and step into the houses, and the lights and sounds cycle through a day from morning birdsong to evening and thunderstorm. A kimono and yukata rental lets you walk the street in costume, the museums most popular feature on social media. The 8th floor has detailed dioramas of Osaka homes from the Meiji era to the post-war period. It is directly connected to Tenjinbashisuji 6-chome station, at the northern end of the shopping arcade.

Highlights

• Life-size 1830s Osaka street indoors, with houses you can enter
• Kimono and yukata rental for photos on the street
• Day-to-night lighting and sound cycle
• Dioramas of Osaka homes from Meiji to Showa
• Direct station access

Tips

• Kimono rental is limited and first-come; arrive at opening, especially at weekends.
• Closed on Tuesdays.
• Walk south along Tenjinbashisuji to Osaka Tenmangu afterwards.

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Nearby

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• Okonomiyaki ChigusaRestaurant · 440 m away
• Naniwa no YuOnsen & Sento · 550 m away
• NakazakichoShopping Street · 550 m away