Tenjinbashisuji Shopping Street

Starting from Tenjinbashi Bridge and stretching north to Tenjinbashisuji 7-chome, this shopping street is approximately 2.6 kilometers long. Said to be the longest in Japan, it takes about 40 minutes to walk through. A welcoming doll is displayed above the entrance, and once you step into the arcade, you'll find around 800 shops, including old-fashioned diners, delicatessens, a cutlery shop run by generations of swordsmiths, a tea shop established in 1868, tofu shops, croquette shops, pottery shops, and kimono shops. In the Edo period, it flourished as a temple town in front of Osaka Tenmangu Shrine, which enshrines Sugawara no Michizane, the god of learning, located in 2-chome, and developed into the shopping street it is today in the Meiji era. At the Osaka Museum of Housing and Living in 6-chome, the town's appearance from the Edo period through the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa periods is recreated. Every year on July 24th and 25th, during the Tenjin Festival, local portable shrines parade through the streets, and the area is filled with lively stalls and entertainment.