🍂Autumn Flavors Model Course🍂 🔸— Moat Area, North —🔸

The season for hearty appetites has finally arrived! ❊😊❊
Sakai’s Moat Area is full of shops offering not only tourist attractions but also sweets made with freshly roasted chestnuts, sweet potatoes, and pumpkin, plus autumn gourmet dishes featuring matsutake and other mushrooms. 🌰🤎
Here is a short model course (Moat Area, North) to enjoy autumn flavors and sightseeing⋆⸜ ⚘ ⸝⋆

📍"Ironworking History and Autumn Flavors Course"
1. Sakai Denshokan ( @sakaidensan )
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2. SAKAINOMA PLAZA Yanagi ( @sakainoma )
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3. Savor the Season’s Autumn Flavors🌰✨
・Tsuboichi Tea Main Shop ( @saryo.tsuboichi — chestnut parfait )
・Rosier Yanagi ( @rosier_fruits — autumn selected mixed parfait )
・Zelkova Shokudo ( @zelkova_shokudo — healthy lunch )
・Asahido Confectionery ( best in Senshu )
・Sorori ( @__sorori__ — Naruto Kintoki sweet potato )
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4. Teppou Blacksmith Residence ( @sakaimachiyamuseums )

🔍Search for "Savor the Season’s Autumn Flavors Special" for details!
🔗 https://www.sakai-tcb.or.jp/feature/detail/96



https://www.sakai-tcb.or.jp/feature/detail/96

📢 Happening this Sunday: Ebisu-jima Cote Riviere 🇫🇷

🍁 Come relax by the river in Ebisu-jima and enjoy shopping for antique goods, tasting gourmet treats, and listening to live music.

📅 Date and Time: Sunday, November 2, 2025, 10:00–16:00
📍 Venue: Ebisu-jima DOCK
Sakai-ku, Sakai City, Kushiyacho-nishi 1-1 west side, west of Xavier Park, riverside of Uchikawa
🚃 Access: About a 10-minute walk from Nankai Line Sakai Station; about a 5-minute walk from Hankai Line Hanadakuchi Station
🚩 Organizer: sakainoma

🔍 For event details, check @ebisujima.cote.rivi on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/ebisujima.cote.rivi/?hl=ja

The former palace Nijo Castle is also torikyu ni jojo."

Kyoto, Kyoto-shi, Nakagyo-ku, Nijo-dori, Horikawa, Nishiiri, Nijojo-cho, 541

Nijo Castle is famous for the Ninomaru, which Tokugawa Yoshiyoshi declared the return of the Great Government, but although it was reduced in scale by Ieyasu's order, the site is vast. If you take a walk in the large garden, you can fully enjoy the cherry blossoms in Spring and the Autumn leaves in autumn. Why don't you go out?

Mika Nejinja Shrine
Kyoto, Kyoto-shi, Nakagyo-ku, Nishitoin-dori, Oikekami-ru, Oshisai-doin-cho, 614

Prayer visitors from all over the country visit this shrine in search of good luck.
In the city of Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto City, the golden Torii (shrine gate) gate between the buildings is the landmark "Mikane Shrine". The god of metals and minerals, Kanayama Bikomei, is the main God of worship, and Amaterasu and Tsukiyomi are enshrined. In this area, there was once a Kinza and Ginza set up by the Edo shogunate to mint and manage coins.

Mika Nejinja's "Lucky Wallet (2000 yen)" is a popular "Lucky Wallet" as a powerful talisman for increasing financial luck.

EXPO'70 Pavilion
Expo Commemorative Park (former site of the 1970 Osaka World Expo)
10-10 Senri Expo Park, Suita City, Osaka Prefecture

The exhibition hall of the 70th World Expo in the Expo Commemorative Park.
This is an exhibition of works from the 1970 Osaka Expo. The interior of the exhibition, which is based entirely on red, is reminiscent of Taro Okamoto. There were exhibits from around the world that would have been held at the Expo, but the one that stuck with me was one of Taro Okamoto's works of art in the photo.
And of course, the Tower of the Sun.

Expo Commemorative Park Rose Garden

1-1 Senri Expo Park, Suita-shi, Osaka
Location: Rose Garden of Peace
flowering season
Mid-May ~ Mid-June, Early October ~ Mid-November

Maintenance of the park is filled with many flowers and trees in each season.
It is easy to understand because there is a plate with the name.
It's very spacious, so you can take your time and take a leisurely stroll.

Expo Commemorative Park
Senri Expo Park, Suita City, Osaka Prefecture

At the "Flower Hill" in the Nature Cultural Garden, about 120,000 cosmos trees bloom all over the hill from early to late October every year, including popular varieties of Sensation Mix, pure white Sensation White that shines in the autumn sky, and vivid yellow cosmos.

📢 Sakai Tourism Concierges will take part in Czech Festival 2025! ✨

This year again, the Sakai Tourism Concierges will join the Czech Festival and promote Sakai tourism on stage. They will also carry out PR activities at the Sakai Convention and Tourism Association PR booth. ☺
Please come to the Czech Festival! We look forward to seeing you at the venue. ✨

🔍 Check the Czech Festival’s social media for event details.
🔍 For more information, search for “Czech Festival 2025”!
https://www.facebook.com/KansaiSakaiCzech/?_rdr

🌳 The 68th Sakai City Greening Festival will be held at Daisen Park 🌳

We are hosting an event at Daisen Park, Sakai’s signature park, to share the importance of greenery.
There will be plant sales, booths for children to enjoy, and food trucks on site, too 🍔🥤 Bring a picnic sheet and head to Daisen Park ☺

📅 Date and time: Sunday, October 26, 2025, 10:00–16:00
📍 Location: Daisen Park, Sakai City — Large Lawn Plaza and other areas
🔍 For details, search for “Sakai City Greening Festival”
https://www.sakai-park.or.jp/event/2025/08/68.html

📢 From October 4th, the gas balloon “Osaka Sakai Balloon” finally began operating at Daisen Park! 🎉
From about 100 meters above, you can see the Nintoku-tenno-ryo Kofun and other nearby burial mounds. ✨
🔍 For details, search for “Osaka Sakai Balloon”!
https://osaka-sakai-balloon.com/

🌰Autumn Flavors Spotlight — Moat Area

The season for hearty appetites has finally arrived!🍁🍂
Sakai’s Moat Area is home not only to tourist attractions but also to many shops offering autumn treats made with fluffy chestnuts, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, and seasonal mushrooms like matsutake.🌰🍠

Enjoy the Moat Area’s sightseeing while savoring the peak flavors of autumn♪🌈✨
🔍For details, search “Sakai Autumn Flavors Spotlight”!
https://www.sakai-tcb.or.jp/feature/detail/96

💡Registration open for the lecture series “Unpacking the Teppo Blacksmith House through Science”!
(A regional collaboration project between Sakai City and Kansai University)

🌈We will hold the lecture series “Unpacking the Teppo Blacksmith House through Science” at Teppo Blacksmith House!
Sakai City and Kansai University have conducted joint research on the Teppo Blacksmith House and shared the results widely through regional collaboration projects. In recent years, researchers from various fields beyond history have joined the investigations, conducting multifaceted analyses of the valuable materials preserved at the Teppo Blacksmith House.

This lecture series will present those research findings. In addition to history, experts in informatics and metallurgical engineering will explore the rich materials passed down at the Teppo Blacksmith House from multiple angles.✨

📅Dates:
① Sunday, October 12, 2025 — Finished
② Sunday, November 9, 2025
③ Saturday, December 6, 2025
⏰Times: 11:00 and 14:00 — about one hour each session
📍Venue: Teppo Blacksmith House
🕰Opening hours: 10:00–17:00 (last entry 16:30)
💰Admission: 500 yen
https://www.city.sakai.lg.jp/kanko/rekishi/bunkazai/bunkazai/oshirase/r7sakai_kandai.html

The Sakai Station Tourist Information Center offers plenty of Sakai goods that make perfect travel mementos.

Alongside classic sweets, you’ll find a lively selection of unique items inspired by the World Heritage kofun burial mounds!🔑 The standout is a collaboration keyholder featuring Hello Kitty and the kofun—available in two limited designs. Both are irresistibly cute, so be sure to grab them both!

🎨 The acrylic figure stand actually doubles as a keyholder in a convenient 2-way design—you can display it or attach it to your bag and take it with you.

📚 You’ll also find stationery useful for work or study, like sticky notes, clips, and masking tape, plus portable glasses cloths and popular magnets!
From practical items to collectible pieces, there’s something for everyone.😊

Be sure to pick up your Sakai souvenirs at the Sakai Station Tourist Information Center!

🍁Sunday, November 16 — “Morning Yoga at the Temple” — Now accepting participants!

As autumn deepens, why not spend a refreshing morning at Myōhōji Temple🍁☀️
At this seasonal change, when the autonomic nervous system can be unsettled, balance your body with yoga and a gentle rice porridge, and refresh your mind🌿

The deputy head priest will also serve matcha and wagashi as a warm gesture of hospitality🍡
We look forward to your reservation😊🎶

Date: Sunday, November 16
Venue: Myōhōji Temple (4-1-3 Nakanocho Higashi, Sakai-ku, Sakai)
Gathering time: 8:20 AM
Fee: ¥5,000 · With rental mat ¥5,100
For details, search “Sakai Morning Yoga”🔍

🎈Delving into the traditions and individuality of Sakai bamboo crafts! Two exhibitions at Sakai City Museum
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Exploring the tradition and individuality of “Sakai bamboo crafts”!✨
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Featuring dynamic spatial art and other works by fourth-generation bamboo artist Takenabe Chikuunsai, whose pieces were also shown at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai💫

📅: Saturday, September 20 – Monday, November 3 (public holiday)
📍: Sakai City Museum (@sakai_city_museum) and the tea room Shin-an
💰: Special exhibition admission fee
🔍For details, search for “Sakai City-Owned Artworks Exhibition”

📱Digital Stamp Rally “Mikke”✨

📢 Join the digital stamp rally on the free SpotTour app!
Enter for a chance to win luxurious prizes in a lottery!☺
Perfect for a weekend outing!🍃

📅 Event period: Saturday, September 6th – Sunday, November 30th
📍 Locations: 28 parks across Osaka Prefecture
🔍For details, search “Digital Stamp Rally ‘Mikke’”!

Pontocho at night, an alley where people in kimonos Outbound as a matter of course. I love the city where you can feel Japan firsthand.

Looking at the Karamon gate of Nijo Castle, a visitor from overseas commented, "There are a lot of Pokémon."
The "pokemon" culture broadcasting to the world is felt to be the inheritance of Japan's traditions.

Reflections on the sunset
A scene at the summit of Mt. Wakakusa, Nara City, Nara Prefecture. A deer is staring at the sunset over Nara Downtown. In such a scene, do deer also indulge in thought?

Mt. Wakakusa
At the summit of Mt. Wakakusa, Nara City, Nara Prefecture. Avec in a kimono is holding a Japanese umbrella and standing in the background with the sunset in the background. Specialties deer are around it. This is the site of a wedding tree photo shoot, and the deer play a role.

A scene in the early morning of Horen-in, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. It's late November, when the Autumn leaves is Best time to visit, and while you There is a the Philosopher's Road, which is a Famous place for tourists, if you go early in the morning, you can enjoy the quiet that is not popular, and you can also enjoy the fallen leaves that have not yet been trampled.

This morning's higanbana, photographed in Kamitomita Town, Wakayama Prefecture, blooms like a bright red carpet every every year, but this year it blooms only sparsely due to the abnormal summer heat Squid.
I was the only one who came to shoot. Let's look forward to next year.

The higanbana I saw while running in the Mountainous Area of Ryujin, Tanabe City, Wakayama Prefecture, and the lilac tsurubo flowers blooming below are also cute.

It seems that it will be a while before you can eat new Soba in the Soba field of Ryujin, Tanabe City, Wakayama Prefecture.

When my husband and I went to play at Kiss Pocity, we were battling

The rice terraces in the Kumano Kodo and Highlands area are also called terraced rice fields in the sky. It's been 10 days since the last shoot. Even in this area (Wakayama), it has become less common to see rice racks (rice hangings) where harvested rice is dried in the sun. Thanks to the fact that large machines do not enter (?) You can see this scenery at the It must be difficult for farmers, but it is a landscape that I would like to see preserved forever.

Rice harvesting has begun in the terraced rice fields in the Highlands area of Kumano Kodo and Kiri no Sato. It is good to walk leisurely, but if you are thinking of walking the Kumano Kodo Nakahechi Course in autumn, please rest your legs for a while and enjoy this view.

Around Spring of this year, my father and mother and I Outbound to Nara.
I was usually aware that I was being raised by a good couple, but on this day, we were both in a very good mood, probably because it was the yellowtail first time in a long time that we were traveling with three people.
I took a lot of pictures as usual on this day, but this was the first time I took a picture for my mother! I think I was asked.
I took a two-shot photo of my mother and father.
Both my mother and father are shy people, so I can't put them on social media or show them to anyone, but they are carefully displayed at the entrance of my house. As a daughter, I think that such a place brings out the character of the two of them, and they are a very cute couple.

This photo is a rare photo that both of my parents complimented. They don't always show any particular interest in photography, and since we both have completely different sensibilities, they rarely compliment us together. However, this photo is displayed on the TV stand as a favorite.

My No. 1 memory of Spring this year is this.

This summer, I took this photo at Tokoin Temple in Ayabe City. Despite the intense heat, the location on the mountain and the cars made it feel a little cooler. I was nostalgic for how summer in Japan used to be.

First trip with my best friend*⋆︎ ✈

In the summer of my second year of high school, I traveled 🎶 with enthusiasm because I was a student taking the entrance exam next year
After the sun went down, I went to Light up the former palace Nijo Castle! It's too ✨️ beautiful everywhere you look, especially the Garden!
It was ♡ a night full of moments when I thought, "I'm glad I was born in Japan."