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Maishima Plant–the Osaka City, Yao City, and Mastubara City Environmental Partnership Facility

Recognizable for its colorful, eye-catching exterior, this state-of-the-art waste disposal facility is also open for free tours that’ll have you thinking about environment preservation and what it means to coexist with nature.

Combining a garbage incineration facility and bulk waste crushing facility, this waste disposal facility is managed in partnership between Osaka City, Yao City, and Matsubara City, providing free tours with advance booking. Novel, colorful, and immediately recognizable, the design of the building comes from Friedensreich Hundertwasser, famed Vienna-borne artist and architect of environment preservation. Foliage spreads across the roof, around the windows, and through the periphery, creating a green landscape that completely encompasses the building. Planning is currently underway to plant a forest in the area around the building, enveloping it in green. Additionally, preparations are being made to establish fruiting trees and a biotope pond to function as habitats for birds and insects. Visitors come from near and far to learn about the functions and processes of this ecologically-minded state-of-the-art pollution prevention facility.

Basic information

  • Parking Available
  • Barrier Free
Open
During the following periods from Monday to Saturday (excluding holidays) *advance registration required
From 10:00, 13:00, and 15:00
*Please note that visitation may not be possible depending on operational conditions
Holidays
Sundays, holidays, New Year holidays
Price
Free
Directions
Right outside Konohana Ohashi Nishizume bus stop via city bus 81 (roughly 30-minute ride) from Nishikujo Station on the JR Osaka Loop Line
Right outside Kankyo Shisetsu Kumiai-mae bus stop via Hokko Kanko bus 2 (roughly 10-minute ride) from Sakurajima Station on the JR Yumesaki Station
Right outside Kankyo Shisetsu Kumiai-mae bus stop via Hokko Kanko bus 3 (roughly 20-minute ride) from Cosmosquare Station on the Osaka Metro
Location
〒 554-0041 1-2-48 Hokukoshiratsu, Konohana-ku, Osaka
Tel
06-6463-4153
Fax
06-6463-7101
URL
http://www.osaka-env-paa.jp/
Other
Reservation required (consult website for more details)

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