Osaka Museum of Housing and Living

It occupies the 8th to 10th floors of the Osaka Housing Information Center. Visitors enter on the 8th floor, ride an escalator to the 10th-floor lookout and then walk down. On the 9th floor, a life-size townscape of Osaka in the 1830s has merchant houses and back-alley row houses that can be entered. Light and sound change from morning to evening, and the displays follow the seasons. The 8th floor traces housing from the Meiji period to the postwar years with models, film and real objects.