Naniwa Park — Attraction in Osaka

A fantastic playground for exposing your child to homeless people and mosquitoes. The toilets are not open because the homeless people have abused them in the past.

We could not use the benches they occupied. Then our kid ended up having to pop a squat over a plastic bag, which we then added to one of the homeless peoples pile of plastic bags, because there are also no bins around.

If you're looking for ghetto Japan, this is the...

Was staying nearby at the Hotel Gracery. No fitness center facilities at the hotel. Naniwa park was a few blocks away. Review is mostly for the calisthenics area and jogging track. Some people working out in the morning, locals jogging around the rubberized track, families using the two separate playground areas and a local youth baseball team about to start a game. Great place to get some exercise while...

Visited this place as we are searching for a place to sit. Unfortunately, there are many pigeons in the park and at one time one of them come closer to ask for food (?) but after realizing we don't have any, they all flew around. Quite traumatizing. Aside from that, this area is quite good to sit around and read book or just chilling if the weather is...