Osaka Umeda Sky Building.

When we first viewed the Umeda sky building back home on the internet, we picked up on it's amazing design as a piece of modern architecture and how it's known as a modern Arc de Triomphe. Seeing the building in person was completely different though. Approaching the building from the side, it looked like a pretty regular sky scraper. Viewing the building from the ground underneath however, revealed the huge arc form of the building, and the connecting elevators at the top, which you could go on to get from one tower to the other (we read it was almost like a white knuckle ride due to the height of it, but it more amazing for the views to be honest). The design of the building was very geometric, using a grid like layout for the face of it, almost as if it was a giant Arc de Triomphe built with lego or in a pixelated form!

Above: A pretty regular sky scraper at first glance from the side!

 We were also able to go out onto the roof, where the views of Osaka were spectacular. We stayed long enough to catch views of the sunset and the city at night:

 Above shows a view from the escalator.