Osaka's Green Top 100
(大阪みどりの百選)
I have really enjoyed seeking out this "Top 100" set of signs. It took a couple years for me to visit all the sites and "collect" all the M100 stones that are still out there, and what I have put together here is just a very simple guide, really more of a photo gallery with offhand comments. The numbering follows the official documentation; it is not arbitrary.
- Sites 1-10 (Osaka)
- Sites 11-20 (Toyonaka, Suita, Takatsuki, Ibaraki)
- Sites 21-30 (Ibaraki, Minoh, Nose)
- Sites 31-40 (Moriguchi, Hirakata, Yao, Neyagawa, Shijo-Nawate, Daito, Kashiwara)
- Sites 41-50 (Kadoma, Higashi-Osaka, Shijo-Nawate, Katano)
- Sites 51-60 (Katano, Tondabayashi, Kawachi-Nagano, Matsubara)
- Sites 61-70 (Habikino, Fujii-dera, Osaka-Sayama, Taishi, Kanan)
- Sites 71-80 (Chihaya-akasaka, Sakai, Kaizuka, Kishiwada)
- Sites 81-90 (Kishiwada, Izumiotsu, Kaizuka, Izumisano, Izumi, Takaishi)
- Sites 91-100 (Sennan, Tadaoka, Kumatori, Misaki, Hannan)
Follow the above links to dive in and see the beautiful stone signs that really got me hooked (I call them "M100 stones"). Along the way, we made a lot of discoveries of new places to visit, particularly in the southern half of Osaka prefecture, and enjoyed seeing how some sites have aged differently than others over the three decades since the sites were selected. Most of the M100 stones are quite easy to find, though a small handful were extremely difficult to find. My "guide" is far from a walkthrough, since I only provide a few sentences for each site, but hopefully it will be enough to get the interested reader started. Happy exploring!