Sakuya Lumina takes place at Osaka Castle Park in Osaka from December 15, 2018 and will run for three consecutive years. The event is open daily from 6pm to 10pm; last entry at 8.40pm.

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Looking up at Osaka Castle main tower from near Shinshigino Bridge. The Japan Mint, known for its riverside tunnel of cherry trees, is just to the north of the OAP (Osaka Amenity Park) Pier.

OSAKA -- The former headquarters of the Japanese Imperial Army's fourth division, located at Osaka Castle Park in this western Japan city's Chuo Ward, has been open to the public since 2017 as the ...

Osaka Castle was rebuilt in 1629, but Hidetada passed away three years later. As the Tokugawa shogunate was settled in Edo, or present-day Tokyo, the Osaka headquarters plan apparently never came ...