The National Bunraku Theatre is an arts centre which duty is to preserve, develop and pass on traditional arts forms from the Osaka - Kyoto area called the Kamigata. The main art form the centre focuses on is the art of Ningyo Joruri Buraku which is a puppet drama.

The movie Bladerunner, where east meets west or somewhere from out of space would be the only way you could describe this amazing place known as Amerika-Mura or Amernura the American Village. As the name may suggest is one of Osaka's most fascinating, electric and more unusual places. This area is a whole suburb which is at the cutting edge of Japanese youth culture.

Sometimes known Nihonbashi or Nipponbashi, Den Den Town, like Tokyo's Akihabara, is Osaka's electrical district with nearly all the area from Nansan Dori Street to Nihombashi being filled with electrical store after electrical store. There are hundreds of shops selling just about everything imaginable electronic. You can buy just about anything from small battery operated toys to the latest computerised products.

Dotonbori is home to Osaka's canal banked entertainment district and has one of the most electric and exciting atmospheres found anywhere in Japan, especially at night when the neon comes alive to the sounds and smells of this great precinct which is jammed packed with bars, cafes, restaurants and fashion stores.