There is an alternative art media center called cocoroom, at Shinimamiya, Osaka. There was a festival there in June, and I walked around the area with other participants.
The area is known as Kamagasaki, homeless, day-job workers, and people under the social security for no income and low income. And there are many benefit apartments there in the town.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamagasaki
But the people are very friendly and lively despite of the low living, and there is a feel of the 1950, 60 of Japan still. In the mid of WWII or after. It is in downtown Osaka, but there is a slow and laid back feel to it.
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making pon-pon yarn ball
友人も参加したぽんぽん制作。 |
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Working people songs
不思議な自作の歌。 |
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A Masque
イタリアの仮面劇に習った劇らしいです。 |
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難波屋 Nanbaya It's a bar and music place.
立ち飲みやでジャズとかやっていると聞いた。一度行ってみたい。 |
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A Christian-run homeless help center.
クリスチャンの尼さんが援助している施設。 |
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Over there there is are day job worker commonly known "Sankaku Kouen" triangle park.
ホームレス、日雇いさんの炊き出しの聖地、三角公園
心斎橋以外の三角公園最近知った。 |
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The guide said, why the house is standing angle? Because it used to be a railway truck.
もともとはちんちん電車の線路だったのでななめの道ができたらしい。 |
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I forgot how it says, but it is from China and protect their houses.
テレビによると中国から来た守り神らしい。 |
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| I don't know how it is called, but it looks like a clock. 時計のような花。 |
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| Chinko? No Pachinko, just my photo joke. |
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| I am not used to the station that there is no ticket machine or conductor. |
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| Grilled meat restaurant signs 焼き肉屋の看板なんかかわいい。♥ |
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| I like the graffiti. |
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In the shopping arcade, the wall is old but nice design.
商店街の店の壁。なかなかモダンなデザイン。 |
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If something is very old, it will become art.
古すぎるとアートに見える。 |
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view from the top of a hotel around Shinimamiya, Dobutsuen station.
Very packed. Downtown Osaka.
新世界周辺の某ホテルの屋上からの長め。さすがに立て込んでいる。奥の方に南港の橋も見える。晴れていて良かった。 |
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I like the old building below.
手前の建物焼けた後か？！ |
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Osaka tower is on the back and public both resort at the next.
通天閣とスパワールドが見える。 |
