Water Capital Osaka: Birthplace • Nakanoshima

🌸🌺🌿🍃 Water Capital Osaka: Birthplace • Nakanoshima • Meiji-Taisho Architecture Tour 🌉 Luminous Osaka ✨ 🌸🌺🌿🍃 🚶‍♀️ Water Capital Osaka: Birthplace • Nakanoshima • Meiji-Taisho Architecture Tour 🚶 🌸🌺🌿🍃 During the Edo period, Osaka was hailed as the "kitchen of the world," due to the concentration of rice granaries from various han (feudal domains) on Nakanoshima, where rice and other goods were traded. 🍚🏯 🌸🌺🌿🍃 Entering the Meiji period, libraries and administrative buildings such as the Osaka City Hall (government, now the fourth-generation building with the 2025 Osaka Expo mascot below) 🌸🌺🌿🍃 and the Osaka Central Public Hall (cultural facilities) were established, building upon the commercial center and beginning to serve as a modern hub for information and cultural dissemination. 🏢📚 🌸🌺🌿🍃 #OsakaHeritage #Nakanoshima #MeijiTaishoArchitecture 🌸🌺🌿🍃