Creative Island Nakanoshima is conducting creative projects by artists active in Japan and overseas, set in the unique Avenues of Osaka and Nakanoshima.
Stories of 15 Places in Nakanoshima has been conducting research in Nakanoshima since 2018, and in the summer of 2024, theatrical writer, novelist, and Toshiki Okada led by the theater company chelfitsch was completed.
This story is distributed at meeting points scattered across 15 locations in Nakanoshima and is a short story limited to each meeting point.
This time, the full text of this story was published in the literary magazine "Shincho" March 2025 issue. Please enjoy the scenery of Nakanoshima that you have taken. Okada said of the work, "This story has the greatest fun in actually going to the place and reading it."
Please visit Nakanoshima and enjoy a journey around the island, as well as an imaginary journey that blends an original story that weaves together the real and imaginary of the past, present, and future, with actual places.
Shinchosha Website
https://www.shinchosha.co.jp/shincho/
Work title / Meeting point location list
1 "Thirty-first floor" Nakanoshima center building
2 "Plaza." Osaka International Convention Center Corp. (Grand Cube Osaka)
3 "Leach Bar" Rihga Royal Hotel
4 “From Tekijuku building (Tekijyuku)” The University of Osaka Nakanoshima Center
5 “Vacant Land” Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
6 "B4F" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
7 "Which is I?" Osaka Science Museum
8 "Here" graf
9 "Nishikibashi" Nakanoshima Festival Tower
10 "Alternative Way" Nakanoshima Festival Tower West
11 "Spatialization of the experience of reading books" Osaka Prefectural Nakanoshima Library
12 "OMM Building" Osaka City Central Public Hall
13 "FIGURINE OF A LADY(Kasaifujyoyou)" The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, OSAKA
14 "Mysterious Fune" Children's Book Forest Nakanoshima
15 “Art Area B1 Front Underground Pass” Art Area B1
