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742-4 Shinmachi, Osaka 530-0015
Open daily 06:00–20:00
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The studio · 舎

A small room
in Shinmachi.

oliama is not a campus. It is a room on the fourth floor at 742-4 Shinmachi, Osaka, with a kettle, a wall of paper, and one machine that hums. This page is about how that room works.

Narrow Osaka alley lit by warm signage at night

The lane below the studio, after last train

Why one engine

We tried many models. Then we kept one and learned it properly.

The studio began the way these things often do in Osaka: two desks, a shared kettle, and a rotating cast of rented models that dazzled for a week and disappointed by the month. Each new arrival meant relearning everything — its habits, its blind spots, its moods.

So we stopped rotating. We chose a single model, named the practice around it, and started keeping it the way a knife is kept: sharpened a little every morning, never lent to work it cannot do. The two hands came naturally — the room had always written software in the mornings and drawn in the afternoons. Kaku and Egaku are just those habits, formalised.

What this means for you is simple. The engine you use in December is the same one you used in March, only better at your kind of problem — because a person here noticed, corrected, and remembered.

Room

4th floor, 742-4 Shinmachi

Osaka 530-0015, Japan

Lights on

06:00 — 20:00

Every day, including weekends

First voice you hear

Kenji

[email protected] · 06-51134-5688

Rule of the room

未完を恐れない

Don't fear the unfinished — fear the unexamined.

How the room works

Three habits, kept daily

06:00

Read the drafts

Every morning begins with yesterday's output. Whatever the engine produced overnight is read by a person before the door unlocks.

14:00

Correct by hand

Afternoons are for corrections — ink over ink, diff over diff. The engine learns from marked-up paper, not from applause.

19:30

Write it down

The day ends in the notebook. What the engine did well, where it lied, what we will feed it tomorrow. Then the lights go out at eight.

The neighbourhood

Shinmachi keeps us honest.

Shinmachi is a working part of Osaka — wholesalers opening shutters at dawn, print shops, a knife sharpener two doors down who has watched our experiment with polite scepticism. It is hard to be precious about your work on a street like this, and that is exactly why we are here.

Clients visiting from Tokyo or further usually arrive mid-morning. The coffee is decent, the chairs are honest, and the engine is always awake.

Plan a visit
Dark walled yard between Osaka buildings in late light

Between buildings, Shinmachi

Come see the room yourself.