Expo 70 Commemorative Park

The Banpaku koen (万博 公园) is where the Expo was held in Osaka in 1970, and it's now a memorial park whose symbol is the Tower of the Sun, which was the centerpiece of the exhibition. It's just north of downtown Osaka, Suita, about 15 Kilometros from Umeda and is a common destination for couples and families with children, especially in the fall and spring seasons when the leaves change and the trees are painted a thousand different colors. Admission to the exhibition costs 250 yenes, it may seem odd to many of you to pay to enter a park, but the incentive is that admission also includes access to a huge Japanese garden just north of the main hall worth seeing.