“The Osaka Museum of Housing and Living” (Kurashi-no-Konjakukan) is located in the center of Osaka, just 2 subway stations from Umeda. Located at the edge of Tenjinbashisuji shopping street, the longest in Japan. If you get tired of the city or are wondering “Where do you want to go today?” The real feeling of the streets of the Edo period is beyond imagination! It is a popular tourist spot for foreigners.
What if the scenery of people’s lives that they thought were normal is gradually changing and disappearing? Perhaps, for the first time, people realize their value when they realize that something that was taken for granted is no longer available. “The Osaka Museum of Housing and Living” in Tenjinbashi-suji is a valuable outing spot that has left the scenery of people’s lives that disappeared in such an event. The Osaka Museum of Housing and Living is a place where you can meet the old Osaka life that everyone has forgotten.
The Osaka Museum of Housing and Living is located on the 8th, 9th and 10th floors of the Housing Information Center at Tenjinbashisuji 6-chome Subway Station. It is a facility where you can walk through the streets of the Edo period restored in full size, and forget the time to display models and materials of nostalgic homes and living in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa eras.
On the 10th floor, you can see the town of Osaka in the Edo period reproduced under the glass. You can see how it is configured by comparing it with the layout diagram posted in the foreground.
You will be amazed by the beautifully reproduced Edo-era Osaka town. The townscape is like a set of historical drama and movies. The gallery in the town is not a doll but a real person. Actually, you can go down to the lower floor and walk in the set or look inside the building.
By touching the lives of strangers in the past, it will be a good opportunity for children to learn how they were living in the past and at the same time to know how their families are.
For adults, it may be a place where you can experience a nostalgic experience by meeting some of the scenery you have seen in the past.
A museum based on the theme “Housing History and Culture”
The “Osaka Museum of Housing and Living” (Kurashi-no-Konjakukan) located in the Tenjinbashi shopping district of Kita Ward, Osaka City, is a museum based on the theme “Housing History and Culture” which opened in 2001. The streets of Osaka in the Edo period and the appearances of Meiji, Taisho and Showa in Osaka are reproduced. Especially popular is the floor of the Edo era, it makes you feel as if you were back in that period. It is a popular museum not only for locals but also for foreigners.
The 9th floor of Kurashi-no-Konjakukan is a reputed high floor in “Saijiki of Naniwa town family (Saijiki is a catalog of season-specific words used in composing haiku)” which reproduced the town of Osaka in the Edo period. Osaka flourished as a town of merchant is reproduced to detail, and it is a popular floor. Here you can actually walk around the town, so you can feel like a time slip in the Edo period. The town which can not be thought of as being inside a building spreads and it seems to forget the real world.
This is the “Kurashi-no-Konjakukan” (Museum of Past and Present of the Living) in the information center Building facing the shopping street of Tenjinbashi, Osaka. It is the museum of the house which can experience the change of a town and the house of Osaka of Meiji, Taisho, and Showa era from Edo era.
The biggest highlight is the cityscape of Osaka which completely restored in the latter part of the Edo period (1830-1844), and the mechanisms or devices which change the state of the town depending on time.
It is interesting to watch it because the decoration of theme is changed seasonally. There are various events including the traditional entertainment, treasure exhibition brought by the citizen, and the old dish. There is the guidance as a volunteer named “Machiya-shu”, too.
The space that reproduced a town of Osaka of the Tenpo era in size of the original is on the ninth floor. When you enter one step from an wooden entrance gate, a bathhouse, a bookstore, a joiner, a grocer’s, an imported goods dealer, a shop dealing kimono fabrics, pharmacists line up on both sides of the main street and there is a fire watchtower high conspicuously on the town-block office. When you pass through the alley, an aspect of the daily life of the common people is seen in 45 minutes of movie with a sound and a picture.
For Japanese people, this facility give them a break.
Information(Access, Price/Charge, Tel, Address, Official site, etc.)
| Name: | The Osaka Museum of Housing and Living (Kurashi-no-Konjakukan) |
| Adresse: | Tenjinbashi 6-4-20 Kita-ku Osaka-city, Osaka 530-0041 Japan |
| Access: | Osaka Municipal Subway Tanimachi-sen line "Tenjinbashisuji-rokuchoume-eki Station” (It is directly connected to the station) |
| Tel: | (+81) 6-6242-1170 |
| Price: | 600 yen (Adult) 300 yen (Students) Free (Junior High School Students or Under) Please refer the official web page. |
| Official site: | http://konjyakukan.com/ |
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