Japan Guide
Kansai
Liberty Ōsaka
A wasteland of factories and flyovers provides the unlikely location for the city's most stimulating museum, Liberty Ōsaka. Its longer name is the Ōsaka Human Rights Museum and it contains remarkable exhibits that tackle Japan's most taboo subjects. There's an excellent English-language leaflet and a portable audio guide that explains the displays which include the untouchable caste (the Burakumin), Japan's ethnic minorities, the disabled, the sexist treatment of women, and the effects of pollution, most tragically seen in the exhibition about Minamata disease. Address: The museum is an eight-minute walk south of Ashiharabashi Station on the JR Loop line Opening time: Tues– Sun 10am–5pm ¥250 
06/6561-5891 
www.liberty.or.jp