大阪城エリア（大阪）
The Osaka Castle area covers the large park and surrounding districts in the eastern center of the city, anchored by one of the most historically significant and most visited landmarks in Japan. It sits in Chuo Ward and Koto Ward, east of the city center, bordered by the Osaka Business Park to the east and the old shitamachi districts to the north and south.
Osaka Castle (大阪城) was originally constructed in 1583 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the military leader who came closest to unifying Japan before the Tokugawa shogunate completed the process. The castle was the largest in Japan at the time of its construction and the political center of the country during Hideyoshi's rule.
The current tower is a 1931 reconstruction on the original stone foundations, reinforced with concrete and equipped with modern museum facilities inside, but the scale of the stone walls and the moats surrounding the inner citadel convey the ambition of the original construction clearly.
The castle sits within Osaka Castle Park, a large public green space covering 105 hectares that serves as one of the most important recreational spaces in the city and one of the finest cherry blossom viewing locations in western Japan.
How to Get to the Osaka Castle Area
Osakajo-koen Station on the JR Osaka Loop Line is the most direct access point, a short walk from the park's northern entrance. Tanimachi 4-chome Station on the Osaka Metro Tanimachi Line and Chuo Line serves the southern approach.
