Industrial Nishi Ward is home to Hamadera Park, with a popular rose garden, baseball fields, and waterfront views across a dramatic skyline of factories and power plants. Stretching into the bay, nearby marshland nature reserve Osaka Symbiotic Forest has fishing spots and roosting water birds. In the evening there’s an after-work buzz to the area’s casual izakaya pubs, sushi bars, and shabu shabu hotpot restaurants.