The famous Umeda Sky Building pointed the way to the growing numbers of glass-and-steel skyscrapers that rise ever higher on the city's skyline. Below, streetcars and trains worm their way along the city's web-like network of railway lines. Yet many residents remain nostalgic for the neighborhoods of the Osaka of old.
今日的大阪雖仍維持高度商業發展，在著名的新梅田大樓帶領下，各式玻璃帷幕大樓撐起的天際線越來越高，電車、火車在蛛網般密佈的鐵道上竄來竄去，卻也使許多人開始懷念起大阪舊時的居住環境。