April 2026
- Foodie guide to Osaka Golden Week 2026: 4 food and drink festivals to check out
- A new 28-storey shopping complex just opened on Midosuji
- Victoire Thierrée: Okinawa!!
- Umeda is getting an urban forest in front of JR Osaka Station come November
- 23 best Golden Week 2026 events in Osaka: April 29–May 6
- Mobile Suit Gundam Café
- Umenoyado Brewery Spring Open House
- Umenoyado Brewery
- Suntory Building Rooftop Beer Garden
- Marufukuro
- The Ritz-Carlton, Osaka
- A look at the new Osaka restaurants that made the 2026 Michelin Guide
- Japan Blue Jeans
- Samurai Jeans
- Fullcount
- Studio d’Artisan
- UES
- Momotaro Jeans
- The Devil Wears Prada 2 afternoon tea at Waldorf Astoria Osaka
- Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus – Special Screening under the Moonlight
- Osaka Mecha Happy Festival at Umeda Sky Building
- Time Out Market Osaka announces two new kitchens
- Michelin unveils a new three-star restaurant in Kyoto in six years
- Kyotographie 2026 review: 8 reasons why Kyoto’s photography festival still sets the pace
- Rinku Fireworks Festival
- Kobe Oktoberfest
- Thai Festival Osaka
- The best things to do in Osaka in April 2026
- Enfants Terribles, Premonitions of Oblivion: Morimura Yasumasa, Yanobe Kenji, Yanagi Miwa
- Sennan Seaside Koinobori
- Famous Azalea Roll at Mt. Ikoma in Higashi-Osaka is now blooming
- You can now enjoy freshly fried takoyaki at 7-Eleven across Japan
- Minatomachi River Place
- Osaka’s historic Shochikuza theatre has been given a last-minute reprieve
- Tsurumi Ryokuchi Park
- Sennan Long Park
- Aishu Deito 2026 sake festival
- Udonbo
- Takeuchi Udonten
- Odoru Udon Umeda
- Kamatake Udon
- See 40,000 wisteria clusters at this private garden in South Osaka
- A Super Mario train is now running on Osaka Metro’s Midosuji Line
- Craft Beer Live 2026
- Tenshiba Oktoberfest + World Wine Festival
- Nakanoshima Festival
- Gion Shizuka, Kyoto
- Soba Takama
- Nagai Park
- Land of Light Museum: Ultraman XR Journey
- Zen and Ghibli
- Harapeko Circus food festival
- LA Food & Culture Fest
- 7 best udon restaurants in Osaka
- Udon Kyutaro
- Ogimachi Udonya Asuro
- Aozora Blue
- Critters Burger
- How to get a free Krispy Kreme doughnut for breakfast in Japan
- 3 best cherry blossom events and illuminations in Kyoto for 2026
- Osaka Castle Forest BBQ
- Kita-Nagaya Spring Garden Market
- Atsumori Cherry Blossom Viewing Festival at Sumaura Park, Kobe
- 9 best cherry blossom day trips from Osaka in 2026 – sakura illuminations included
- 3 best cherry blossom events and illuminations in Osaka for 2026
- Suntory to offer Roku Gin distillery tour and tasting in Osaka
- 4 of the best soba noodle restaurants in Osaka
- Glico-ya
- 15 best things to do in and near Dotonbori
- Naniwa Specialty Ichibirian Dotonbori
- Pivot Base
- Teuchi Soba Akari
- Naked Meets Gaudi Exhibition
- Osaka favourite Hughes Pizza doubles up with a new parkside pizzeria
- Hughes Pizza Parkside
- Renoir Exhibition: 185th Anniversary of His Birth
- Tulips and nemophila at Sakai Green Museum Harvest Hill
- 6 of the best cocktail bars in Osaka
- Gucci Giardino Osaka
- Lohas Festa 2026 Spring
- Nyanko Expo
- New Universal Studios Japan manhole covers are popping up in Osaka
- Ista Coffee Elements
- Traditional Shishi Odori deer dance performance
- Kitahama Flea Market
- Temu mic stands and big dreams: a night out at Osaka’s newest comedy club
- Slime Wonderland