生駒ビルヂング

About two minutes' walk south from Kitahama station on the Osaka Metro Sakaisuji line or the Keihan line, the head office of the Ikoma clock shop rises with a heavy dignity. Built in Showa 5 (1930), it is one of the modern buildings that stand for this quarter. The architect was So Hyozo, who also worked on the Sakaisuji Naniwabashi bridge and the Kunijima water works. The clock tower on the roof, the bay and round windows designed as pendulums, and the seven eagle carvings set at the two entrances and the five show windows all catch the eye. The stair of Italian marble facing the entrance, the stained glass and the walls of scratch tile, tiles with hand-drawn vertical stripes, carry their history too. It can be visited during business hours, and it is on the national register of tangible cultural properties.

Translated from the Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City tourist listings (観光施設一覧, CC BY 4.0).

Osaka Prefecture's list of designated cultural properties names this place as the owner of 1. Objects are not necessarily on view.

大阪府 文化財一覧 (CC BY 4.0), current at 2024-05-01. Joined by owner name; long names are shortened to the buildings or the object.