#BuildingPeace

[marandsviet]

The Concept of Forgiveness Across Religions: Healing Hearts and Building Peace

[nanjilanandfoundation]

World Tourism Day!

Traveling can help you achieve peace and hone your social and communication skills! So, keep traveling, but don't forget to stay safe. Happy World Tourism Day!

[vanessamodely]

#ey #entreprenourship #oftheyear #ceremony #buildingpeace thoughts #economie #responsible #nationsoftheworld #modelyofficial #unescoproject #humanrights #raquelbalenciacouture #peaceonearth (à Nations of the World united for the values of UNESCO)

[prakritipoddar]

#buildingpeace @nimrit.g @prakritipoddar (at MIT Pune)

[virginiaovers]

Osaka Guide: Amerikamura & Shinsaibashi Shopping Street

Check out the latest trending Japanese youth fashion in Amerikamura and shop global brands and traditional boutiques on the historic Shinsaibashi Shopping Street.

Looking to shop for the latest fashion and name brands in Osaka? There are plenty of design and trendy options at Amerikamura & Shinsaibashi to rival Harajuku and Ginza in Tokyo.

Amerikamura アメリカ村

Amerikamura is located in the center of Osaka and you can get there easily via Yotsubashi Station and Shinsaibashi Station. The name Amerikamura or “Ame-mura” translates to “American Village” and you might wonder why there is an area in Osaka called “Amerika”?

Back in the 70s, warehouses in the area were converted into stores that sold American and western goods. It gained notoriety in the 80s and 90s as TVs and magazines referred to the area Amerikamura. Fast forward to today, it’s a hot spot for young people and trendy fashion with cafes, clubs, and clothing stores.

Mitsu Park or better known as Sankaku Park (Triangle Park)

Big Step Amerikamura

One of the bigger shopping complexes in Amerikamura is Big Step. It has clothing and sporting goods shop, art gallery, restaurants, used record shop, and a pinball arcade among its many stores.

In addition to the retail shops, creativity and artistic vibe of the area could be seen throughout the building. There are arts by Seitarou Kuroda, buggy, and Dragon76 on the interior walls and floors. The bathrooms on some of the floors are quite wild with curved mirror walkway, colored lights, and funky paint patterns and shapes.

While browsing in Big Step, we found a row of the gachapon machine with interesting toys and prizes. The first one is animals standing at a urinal, the second one is poop in various colors, and the last one is a mini gachapon. Which one would you collect?

Kunio Sato’s Animal at Urinal

Unchi toy (Poop)

Art in Amerikamura

Outside of clothing stores and shopping, Amerikamura is also known as a mecca for performers and artists. As you walk around the area, you’ll see artists creation all over building walls and store signs.

Vicki! I–I Thought I Heard Your Voice! by Roy Lichtenstein on a building

Peace on Earth by Seitaro Kuroda

Shops and Restaurants in Amerikamura

Amerikamura is not a big area so you can browse through most of it in a few hours. However, despite its size, there are plenty to see and eat.

Retail stores in Amerikamura

Used good shop and restaurants

Eating options including numerous famed takoyaki stands (Kogaryu Takoyaki and Wanaka), popular steakhouse, and original sweets like ice dog.

Popular steak chain Ikinari Steak

Original Ice Dog shop

IKKI kasuteira sweets shop

Elk Pancake Restaurant

We took a break during our visit and had some souffle pancake at Elk – a pancake specialty cafe. The mango souffle pancake with ice cream was the perfect dessert our family devoured.

Elk Restaurant

Mango souffle pancake!

Coffee at Elk Resturant

Shinsaibashi Shopping Street

Located just north of Dotonbori across the Ebisu Bridge is Shinsaibashi. Shinsaibashi is one of the busiest shopping streets in Osaka with 60,000 visitors on weekdays and over 100,000 on weekends.

View of Shinsaibashi from Dontonbori.

The area has been a major retail center for Osaka since the mid-1800s. Today, there are over 180 stores under the 2000 feet (600 meters) covered shopping arcade. The stores are mostly large international brands with a few restaurants and specialty shops scattered in between.

WEGO Fashion Store

Need handmade cosmetics?

Sushi restaurant

Peko-chan on Fujiya Restaurant Sign

Sanrio Gallery

Mitsuya Yoshoku (western food) Restaurant

Gram Souffle Pancake Restaurant

Pedestrians crowding Ebisu Bridge in 2003 after Hanshin Tiger won the league champion

Thank you for reading our guide on the trendy Amerikamura and historic Shinsaibashi Shopping Street. Whether you’re looking for edgy fashion or designer brands, you’ll probably find something you love in these areas. We’ll see you soon in our guide for Osaka Castle.

Just One Cookbook Osaka Guides

Tsutenkaku Tower and Shinsekai District 新世界・通天閣

Dotonbori & Namba 道頓堀・難波

Kuromon Ichiba Market and Kitchenware Street 黒門市場・千日前道具屋筋商店街

America Village & Shinsaibashi アメリカ村・心斎橋筋

Osaka Castle 大阪城

Umeda 梅田

Tempozan 天保山

USJ ユニバーサルスタジオジャパン

Expocity エキスポシティー

Osaka Guide: Amerikamura & Shinsaibashi Shopping Street published first on https://zenramensushi.tumblr.com/

[healthyheartworks]

Architects Building Peace - official trailer 5 from Boundaries on Vimeo.

Featuring projects, stories and research on building peace through socially committed architecture, in a way that will inspire you!

Join the community now on Kickstarter: kck.st/2bKWGTD

«Architects Building Peace features the best stories of architects and engineers, from around the world, who have had the courage to leave the well worn path and getting involved. It is about architects who have never stopped training to be able to realize their dream: to help the poorest and disadvantaged communities in building better living conditions, and to help them become more resilient in case of natural disasters or wars; and to do it by themselves, with their own means, culture and technology».

#architecture #sustainability #humanitarian #nofilter #buildingpeace #boundaries #peace

[boundaries-journal]

#reBuilding after #disaster isn't #political matter, but #social and #community one https://t.co/Y2ebWvuC2S #architecture #humanitarian #sustainability #buildingpeace #peace #

[palomaworkshop]

Emprender Paz

We are about ready to submit an application to the contest Emprender Paz organised by Fundacion Social, the Swedish Embassy in Colombia, GIZ (The german cooperation agency ),Konrad Adenaur Stiftung and other private companies like El Tiempo and Aviatur.

The prize tries to promote entrepreneurship projects like ours that are hoping to make a positive impact on the construction of peace in Colombia

Through a private sector initiative, we hope to learn a lot from the process and hopefully be endowed with seed money to further our impact!

[emrecelikrumi]

Watch #USIP experts speak on #Religious #peacebuilding @RumiForum @USIP @buildingpeace https://t.co/YUdZs2HkET

http://dlvr.it/PCWCm0 : from my twitter bit.ly/ECtweet

[emrecelikrumi]

Watch #USIP experts speak on #Religious #peacebuilding @RumiForum http://dlvr.it/PCWBLD @USIP @buildingpeace

[healthyheartworks]

Architects Building Peace - the book from Boundaries on Vimeo.

Featuring projects, stories and research on building peace through socially committed architecture, in a way that will inspire you!

Architects Building Peace features the best stories of architects and engineers, from around the world, who have had the courage to leave the well worn path and getting involved. It is about architects who have never stopped training to be able to realize their dream: to help the poorest and disadvantaged communities in building better living conditions, and to help them become more resilient in case of natural disasters or wars; and to do it by themselves, with their own means, culture and technology.

Join the community now on Kickstarter: kck.st/2bKWGTD

#architecture #sustainability #humanitarian #nofilter #buildingpeace #boundaries #peace

[boundaries-journal]

Architects Building Peace, featuring projects, stories and research on building peace through socially committed architecture, in a way that will inspire you! Join the community on Kickstarter: goo.gl/GulsSD #architecture #sustainability #humanitarian #nofilter #buildingpeace #boundaries #peace

[boundaries-journal]

International Day of Peace: #architecture has a crucial role in #buildingpeace through #habitat & #infrastructures https://goo.gl/GulsSD

[boundaries-journal]

Architects Building Peace, featuring projects, stories and research on building peace through socially committed architecture, in a way that will inspire you! Join the community on Kickstarter: goo.gl/GulsSD #architecture #sustainability #humanitarian #nofilter #buildingpeace #boundaries #peace

[boundaries-journal]

Architects Building Peace, featuring projects, stories and research on building peace through socially committed architecture, in a way that will inspire you! Join the community on Kickstarter: goo.gl/GulsSD #architecture #sustainability #humanitarian #nofilter #buildingpeace #boundaries #peace

[boundaries-journal]

‪#urban development must deal with #people. Help spreading a culture of #community and #sustainability http://goo.gl/GulsSD  #buildingpeace‬