Sakai City has a population of about 810,000 and is the second largest city in Osaka Prefecture after Osaka City.
When you think of the second largest city, you may think of a big city, but if you take a step away from the hustle and bustle, you will find a rich charm with a different history, such as Kofun Tumulus and History Shrines.
The Mozu Tombs, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is also home to the largest tomb in Japan, the Tomb of Emperor Nintoku, making it a city where you can feel history and tradition firsthand.
We will Broadcasting Information full of the charm of Sakai City, so thank you!
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Discover Sakai as you visit and encounter its charms. “Himotoku Sakai 2026 ~OSAKA SAKAI EXPO~” is coming!
An interactive event that unravels Sakai.
This edition centers on the theme “OSAKA SAKAI EXPO”🔍
Enjoy tea service, hands-on experiences, and local gourmet treats to relive the Expo experience in Sakai!
Take part in a stamp rally using the limited "Himotoku Sakai" stamp passport to collect official pavilion stamps and more while touring Sakai!
Those who meet the conditions will receive a collaboration pin badge featuring Myakumyaku and Haniwa Bucho!✨
📅 Event dates: Friday, March 20th (public holiday) to Sunday, March 22nd
※The stamp rally runs from Sunday, March 1st to Tuesday, March 31st
📍 Location: Various locations in Sakai City
🔍 For details, search for “Himotoku Sakai 2026”!
🔗 https://www.sakai-tcb.or.jp/news/detail/20251217133435...
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♬ Sophia Sakai Planetarium February Projection Program Announcement ♬
We are pleased to announce the projection program at Sophia Sakai Planetarium through Saturday, February 28th.✨
(Closed: Mondays, February 24)
A program featuring live commentary by our guide, who will talk about constellations and the charms of the night sky, is now available!✩
We hope you’ll join us☺♪
[Projection Program]
・A Time Under the Stars with Live Commentary by a Guide
・Inazuma Delivery: A Bizarre Space Journey!? — Encounter with a Black Hole —
・Shimajiro and the Shooting Star Wish
・Maku Maku’s Great Starry Adventure
・To the GRAND UNIVERSE music by Joe Hisaishi (until 2/26)
・Naturenarium: The Melody of the Aurora — Exploring Mysterious Lights
・Rabi’s Space Trip (until 2/23)
・Seasons — The Starlit Water Surface —
📅 Through Saturday, February 28th
📍 Sophia Sakai Planetarium (@sophiasakai_pla)
💰 Adults 600 yen Children 250 yen
👥 Capacity 140 (first-come, first-served)
🔍 For details, search for “Sophia Sakai Planetarium program”!
🔗 https://www.sofia-sakai.jp/planetarium/planetarium-program/...
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🚆 "Nankai Main Line Grade Separation" On-Site Tour to Go Up on the Viaduct👀
📣 One day only on Saturday, March 28!
You will be specially allowed onto the railway viaduct under construction and can also see the crossing with the Hankai Tramway!
A walking tour along the restricted-access area of the Nankai Main Line "elevated construction" route🚶🏻➡️
🔹 Participants will receive a rare railway item (not for sale) as a commemorative gift! 🎁
🔍Highlights
🔹 Former Suwanomori Station Building
🔹 Walking along the Nankai route through the elevated construction area
🔹 A once-before-opening experience of going up onto the viaduct
🔹 Former Hamadera Park Station building
📅 Date and time
🔹 Saturday, March 28, 2026, 1:20 PM–3:00 PM
📍From Former Suwanomori Station Building to Former Hamadera Park Station building
💰 Participation fee
🔹 5,000 yen (includes commemorative gift🎁)
📌 Registration deadline: up to 3 days before the event date (first come, first served)
🔍For details and to apply, search for "Nankai Main Line Grade Separation" On-Site Tour to Go Up on the Viaduct
🔗 https://www.sakai-tcb.or.jp/tourism/detail/205...
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✨We will hold an art tea gathering in collaboration with Takahiro Koga✨
The art tea gathering that received high praise at the Osaka-Kansai Expo event hosted by Sakai City
will be held at Sakai Risho no Mori!
The venue is Muichian, a reconstructed four-and-a-half-mat tea room that Sen no Rikyu used for tea service at the Grand Kitano Tea Ceremony hosted by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Surrounded by works from ceramic artist Takahiro Koga, active both in Japan and overseas,
you can enjoy a special experience of actually using his pieces to prepare and taste tea.
We will also offer a guided tour of Sakai Taian, the tea room that reproduces the National Treasure Taian—Sen no Rikyu’s only surviving work—in its original form.
Seats are limited and accepted on a first-come, first-served basis, so please make your reservation early.
📅 Date: Saturday, March 7
📍 Venue: Sakai Risho no Mori
💰 6,600 yen (includes admission to the permanent exhibition)
👥 30 people (first-come, first-served)
🔍 For details, search for "Sakai Risho no Mori Art Tea Gathering"!
🔗 https://sakai-rishonomori.com...
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📣 Morning Sumo Practice Observation at Ohtori Taisha and a Shinto Lecture “Shinto and Sumo” ✨
One day only: Wednesday, February 25!
With the Grand Sumo Osaka Tournament in March just around the corner, Arashio-beya will stay at Ohtori Taisha and hold morning practice sessions.
You’ll see rikishi training up close, sweaty and covered in clay as they clash seriously. It’s a different tension and power from the tournament itself.
We’re also holding a special lecture by a Shinto priest on “Sumo and Shinto.” Learning about the relationship between Shinto and sumo will make watching the sport even more enjoyable ✨
🔹 Participation gifts: commemorative items from Arashio-beya and a limited-time goshuin (temple seal) from Ohtori Taisha
👀 Highlights
🔹 Watch Arashio-beya’s morning sumo practice from front-row seats
🔹 Shinto priest’s lecture “Sumo and Shinto Rituals”
🔹 Shrine visit and a brief introduction to the shrine by a Shinto priest
📅 Date and Time
🔹 Wednesday, February 25, 2026 — 7:20 AM to 11:00 AM
📍 At Ohtori Taisha
💰 Participation Fee
🔹 ¥7,000 (includes a commemorative gift 🎁)
📌 Application deadline: up to 7 days before the event (first come, first served)
🔍 For details and to apply, search “Morning Sumo Practice Observation at Ohtori Taisha and a Shinto Lecture ‘Shinto and Sumo’.”
🔗 https://www.sakai-tcb.or.jp/tourism/detail/192...
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🔴Special Exhibition: “Fenice Sakai × Gashibaru Discovery! Sakai”🔵
🔷〈Encounter the active arm movement in Sakai today—people, things, and happenings〉🌈
■Dates: Tuesday, February 3, 2026–Thursday, February 19, 2026
■Hours: 9:00 AM–8:00 PM (last admission 7:30 PM)
*Final day only: 9:00 AM–3:00 PM
*Closed: Monday, February 16
■Admission: Free
■Venue: 📍Fenice Sakai (@fenice_sacay)
Exchange and Creation Galleria (2-1-1 Okinabashicho, Sakai Ward, Sakai City)
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1. Nostalgic Record Jacket Exhibition💽
From the owner of jazz cafe cafe RVC (Sakai Ward, Sakai City), we present over 30 record jackets that colored the era, centered on jazz, drawn from a collection of more than 3,000 records.
2. My Bookcase📚
From the share-style bookstore HONBAKO (Sakai Ward, Sakai City), lively personalities of “box owners” bring a one-box bookstore—"bookcase"—to the event♪ (Sales on weekends only)
Experience building your own "bookcase," enjoy storytelling sessions, and visit the book exchange corner!
3. Visual Artist Yusen Yoneda and the Mansion Midori Renovation Project🎈
Showcasing woodblock prints by Yusen Yoneda, registered with the Sakai City Emerging Artists Bank, and the exchanges between young creators and local residents fostered through activities at Mansion Midori.
On February 15, Yusen Yoneda will hold a woodblock print workshop. (Advance registration required; details on the website)
4. Special Exhibit: Large Sheet Metal Roof Ring✨
A large-scale craft art piece—2 m in diameter and weighing 130 kg—previously exhibited at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, comes to Sakai.
Manufactured by Modern Industrial Co., Ltd., supervised by architect Sou Fujimoto.
5. Special Exhibit: Oceano⛓️
An artwork created in Sakai reusing the distinctive exterior ship ropes from the Portugal Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, expressing the sea that connects Portugal and Japan.
(By Vanessa Barragan / Owned by Sakai City)
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🔷Fenice Sakai × Gashibaru Collaboration Event
This year again, about 80 eateries and shops in the Sakai Higashi area participate in the food and drink festival🍴☕️
Collaborating with the 18th Gashibaru (February 17–20)!
・Gashibaru
🔗https://e-sacai.com/gashi-bar...
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💁For more details
🔗https://www.fenice-sacay.jp/event/33048/...
Search “Gashibaru × Fenice Sakai”
https://www.sakai-tcb.or.jp/event/detail/850...
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🔪✨ Knife Factory and Sakai Takayuki Knife Gallery Tour 🏭🔍
~ Experience Sakai’s blade culture and the craftsmen’s skill! ~
Held on 2/26 (Thu), 5/28 (Thu), 8/27 (Thu), and 11/26 (Thu)! ✨
A rare public opening of the factory that produces the world-renowned Sakai Takayuki knives! 🛠️✨
🔹 For an additional option fee of 18,000 yen, add a tour-exclusive Sakai Takayuki ‘‘meat deboning knife’’ souvenir valued at about 30,000 yen! 🔥
🔹 Highlights
🔹 Tour the Sanpo Factory and watch the knife-making process (forging, rough sharpening, etc.) 🏭
🔹 Visit the gallery displaying about 500 knives 🔍
🔹 Try a simple knife sharpening experience! ✨
🔹 Optional knife ‘‘meat deboning’’ add-on available 🎁
💰 Participation Fees
🔹 Tour only: 4,000 yen
🔹 Tour with the exclusive souvenir knife: 22,000 yen
📌 Registration deadline: up to 3 days before each event date!
🔍 For details and registration, search for "Knife Factory and Sakai Takayuki Knife Gallery Tour with Simple Knife Sharpening Workshop"
https://www.sakai-tcb.or.jp/tourism/detail/183...
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💠⋆⸜ Sakai Tourism Concierge reported on 【O
osaka Sakai Balloon】 ⸝⋆💠
Before boarding the balloon, learn some tips, sights, and history that will make your experience more enjoyable, presented clearly on the website with photos💚
Please refer to it --ꕤ
▶️Check the website for more👀
〈 Sakai Tourism Guide Website 〉
🔗https://www.sakai-tcb.or.jp/feature/detail/107...
🔍Search for "Sakai Tourism Concierge Experience Report"!
#Sakai City #Sakai Tourism Concierge #Tourism PR #Experience Report
#Oosaka Sakai Balloon #Balloon #Experience #Spectacular Views
https://www.sakai-tcb.or.jp/feature/detail/107...
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Attention moms and dads! 🌸 Why not make spring memories by running the Sakai City Marathon? 🏃♂️🏃♀️
The event takes place beside the World Heritage Tomb of Emperor Nintoku, in the verdant Daisen Park. 🌳 The popular Family Category is a short 2.5 km course, ideal for those returning to exercise or for little ones making their race debut. ✨
The sense of achievement from “I finished!” becomes a lifelong treasure that boosts your child’s confidence. 🏆 Hold hands with your child and aim for the finish line with your best smiles. 🤝💕
Seeing your child run with all their heart might just move moms and dads to tears… 🥺💖 After the race, enjoy a picnic in the park or stroll through Sakai—both are wonderful. 🍱🍡
This spring, let the whole family aim for a joyful finish line! 🏁✨ We look forward to your entries! 🤗🌈
Check the website for detailed rules and how to enter. 🔍✨
📅 Date and time: Wednesday, April 29 (national holiday)
📍 Location: Daisen Park, near Nintoku-tenno-ryo-mae — loop course
Search “Sakai City Marathon” for more details!
🔗 https://sakaicitymarathon.com//
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🐬✨Half-price Admission for Sakai City Residents!✨🐬
One day only: Sunday, February 1, 2026
With thanks for your continued support
\ Sakai Citizen Appreciation Day / celebrates with you🎉
On this day only, residents of Sakai City receive half-price admission!
Enjoy thrilling dolphin training sessions and paid hands-on programs suitable for both adults and children✨
It’s a special day the whole family can enjoy💙
We look forward to welcoming you😊
[Eligibility]
Residents of Sakai City
*Please present proof that confirms your residence in Sakai City.
*Discount applies only to the person shown per one form of ID presented.
*This offer cannot be combined with other discounts.
*The dolphin interaction experience program requires a separate regular fee.
[Admission Fees]
◯ Regular admission
Adult (junior high school age and older): ¥1,210
Child (age 4 to elementary school): ¥770
◯ Nighttime (admission from 5:00 PM onward)
Adult (junior high school age and older): ¥770
Child (age 4 to elementary school): ¥550
*Free for children age 3 and under all day
[Hours]
10:00 AM–8:00 PM (last admission 7:30 PM)
🔍 For details, search “Noah Dolphin Dome”!
https://www.dolphindome.jp//
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