Industrial zone turned a centre for art and culture, Kitakagaya ranks right at the top of any list of Osaka’s most creative neighbourhoods. Smack in the middle of the action is MASK, a 1,000-square-metre storage and exhibition facility for oversized artworks. It’s run by the Chishima Foundation for Creative Osaka, one of the major players behind the area’s transformation, and handles pieces by some of Japan’s leading contemporary artists.
Past exhibitions have featured the likes of Muneteru Ujino, famed for his ‘sound sculptures’, and Kenji Yanobe, whose towering creations decorate the grounds of some of Osaka’s leading museums, as well as internationally noted luminaries such as Teppei Kaneuji, Miwa Yanagi, Kohei Nawa, Hironari Kubota and Atsuko Mochida.