[Osaka] Osaka Castle & Old Town Private Historical Tour

Osaka made its money as a merchant city long before it became a castle town, and this walk puts the two side by side. Start in Semba and Doshomachi, where the wholesale and medicine trades ran the country's commerce, and where a few old townhouses and shrines survive between the office blocks. Then Osaka Castle: the granite stones, the moats, and the story of how Toyotomi Hideyoshi's fortress fell and what the Tokugawa built in its place.