ATC
Bayside trade complex of offices, showrooms and shops on reclaimed land, built during Japan's nineteen eighties economic boom.
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This guide to ATC on Osaka Bay follows the late-1980s bet that this reclaimed strip of land would become the city's gateway to Asia-Pacific trade, and the trade center that opened here in 1994 just as Japan's bubble economy was already cracking. It tours the era's failed neighbors nearby, from a subway-platform aquarium to a shuttered maritime museum, and asks what let this complex hold on where they didn't. Listen for what Osaka is building across the water today, on the very same reclaimed sea.
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