Shinsekai (新世界, lit. "New World") is a district in Osaka that was developed before the war and then neglected in the decades afterwards. At the district's center stands Tsutenkaku Tower, the nostalgia-evoking symbol of Shinsekai.

The area was developed into its current layout following the success of the 1903 National Industrial Exposition, which brought over five million people to the neighborhood within just five months. Shortly after the expo closed its doors, work began to improve and update Shinsekai.

On this tour, you will visit a Japanese knife shop in Shinsekai that stocks made-in-Osaka kitchen knives and a family-run okonomiyaki restaurant for lunch.

KOHAMA MARKET, a local market in Sumiyoshi Ward, Osaka City, is a shopping street in front of Sumiyoshitaisha Shrine (commonly known as "Sumiyosan"), the headquarters of Sumiyoshi shrines nationwide, and has a history of over 100 years since the Meiji era (1868-1912). The kohama market began as a fruit and vegetable market established by seven rice dealers in kohama when the Nankai Railway (now Nankai Electric Railway) started operations in 1907 and Kohama Station and other stations were newly built.

The area is lined with about 120 stores from north to south between Kohama Station on the Nankai Main Line and Sumiyoshi Taisha Shrine, and is bustling with local shoppers every day.

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