Rainy day things to do in Osaka with kids 8 spots
Osaka is Japan's eating city, home to Tenjinbashisuji — the country's longest shopping street, 2.6 km and about 800 shops under one continuous roof. You can graze your way along it with a stroller even on rainy days. It suits kids who won't sit through meals and families who travel to eat.
Kansai's gateway on an artificial island, about 40 minutes to Namba and 80 to Kyoto.
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An aquarium arranged by region around the Pacific Rim, holding some 620 species.
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A castle keep rebuilt in 1931 by public donation, holding an eight-floor museum inside.
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Umeda Sky Building (Kuchu Teien Observatory)
Two Osaka skyscrapers joined at the top by an open rooftop deck, 173 meters up.
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In Ikeda, where instant noodles were invented in 1958.
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A children's museum built to be touched, the first of its kind in Japan.
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Kansai Airport SIM & Wi-Fi Rental Counters
SIM and Wi-Fi counters cover the arrivals and departures floors, plus one by the train gates.
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The kids' playing areas for children up to 6 with a parent, and the baby rooms with their diaper-changing space and hot water for formula, are all inside the terminal buildings. Only the hop between Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 uses the free shuttle bus, 7 to 9 minutes.
The official FAQ answers "Is a rainy day a problem?" with "It is an indoor facility, so viewing is not affected." Depending on which parking lot you use you may need an umbrella to reach the entrance, and umbrellas 120 cm or longer cannot be brought inside.
The keep is a museum, so the sights are the exhibits inside. Getting there, though, is a 15- to 20-minute walk outdoors from any station.
Floors 39 and 40 are indoors; only the rooftop is open to the sky. The operator says you can come up as usual even when it's raining, and severe weather closes just the rooftop. Umbrellas can't be used up there, so the 39th-floor gallery shop sells raincoats.
The exhibits and both workshops are all inside the building, spread over two floors. The only walking outdoors is the roughly 5 minutes from Hankyu Ikeda Station.
The museum states that it is an indoor facility you can enjoy whatever the weather, including changes in temperature. Floors 1 through 5 are all inside, and it is right by Exit 2 of Ogimachi Station on the Osaka Metro Sakaisuji Line.
All 38 seats are indoor tables, with no terrace seating. It is a two-minute walk from Exit 11 of Kintetsu Namba Station and the subway Namba stations.
Every counter is inside a terminal building. In Terminal 1 they are split between the first floor (arrivals) and the fourth floor (departures), and one more sits beside the ticket gates of Nankai Kansai-Airport Station on the second floor.