OSAKA - R : JAPAN

*Location:

   Clock tower
   Carillon plaza
   3-1-3 Umeda, Kita-ku
   Osaka, Honshu, Japan
   LL: N 34.70368, E 135.49679
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   (unknown)

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 13 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is not applicable
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in unknown year
     with bells made by an unknown maker 
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  - meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    6 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:   9 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  97%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2024
*Links:

Carillon Plaza with photo of the bell tower.  This outdoor walkway connects JR Osaka Station and Hankyu Osaka-Umeda Station

North gate building — Japanese-language page with photos of the bell tower

Stock photo

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Asia and the Pacific Rim chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Japan.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 10-Mar-26
   based on textual data last updated on 2026/03/01
   and on technical data last updated on 2024/07/24
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