Minami

Tradition by day and neon by night, Minami is the place to come for Osaka history: Japan's oldest temple, a breathtaking collection of Japanese art in the Municipal Museum of Fine Art, and a mausoleum bigger than the pyramids. And then youth culture takes over when it comes to nightlife neonside: this is where future fashionistas forge the haute couture of tomorrow. Amid all this modernity are two bastions of Osaka tradition: the National Bunraku and Shin-Kabukiza Kabuki theaters.