Channel your inner samurai and visit these remarkable castles in Japan, from Osaka to Nagasaki and right across the land.

Patina, in Osaka, Japan, opened on May 1 across from Osaka Castle and Naniwanomiya Park. T+L was among the first to check in.

Naomi Osaka defeated Viktorija Golubic in three sets at the Italian Open. / IMAGO / Emmefoto Just minutes before her highly anticipated second-round match at the Italian Open against Naomi Osaka ...

Naomi Osaka captured her first title in four years by winning the L’Open 35 de Saint-Malo, a WTA 125 event held on clay courts in France. In the final, Osaka defeated Slovenia’s Kaja Juvan in ...

Not many active players on the WTA Tour have received more criticism and faced more doubt than Naomi Osaka. Over the past few years, a growing number of fans have begun questioning Osaka's ...

The current structure was mostly rebuilt in 1931 and renovated in the late ’90s, but the original sense of the 1583 castle remains. This year, there’s all the more reason to make Osaka part of ...

Myaku-Myaku, the mascot for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka. (Mainichi) OSAKA (Kyodo) -- A self-driving shuttle bus used to ferry visitors to the World Exposition in Osaka had a minor collision ...

A gridded wooden structure formed using traditional joinery makes up The Grand Ring, which Japanese studio Sou Fujimoto Architects has used to encircle the Expo 2025 Osaka in Japan. At 61,035 ...

To walk through a reconstructed palace hallway and feel like royalty. What is it? A museum inside Osaka Castle, with eight floors of displays dedicated to the castle’s history. Think all kinds ...

Explore Dotonbori’s canals and street food, wander the grounds of Osaka Castle, or browse the bustling markets of Tsuruhashi. This hot list of Airbnb Osaka accommodation has been curated to ensure ...

Landmarks like Osaka Castle coexist with early 20th-century modernist architecture, myriad postwar buildings, and contemporary skyscrapers. In recent decades, large-scale redevelopments ...

The Expo 2025 opened in Osaka on Sunday with more than 10,000 people singing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to celebrate the start of the six-month event that Japan hopes will unite the world divided ...