Nakanoshima
Nakanoshima is a 3 km long and 50 hectares narrow sandbank in Kita-ku, Osaka city, Japan, that divides the Kyū-Yodo into the Tosabori and Dōjima rivers. Many governmental and commercial offices, museums and other cultural facilities are located on Nakanoshima.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mc681, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Mc681, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include The National Museum of Art, Osaka and Higobashi Station.
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Museum
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The National Museum of Art, Osaka is a subterranean Japanese art museum located on the island of Nakanoshima, located between the Dōjima River and the Tosabori River, about 10 minutes west of Higobashi Station in central Osaka.
Higobashi Station
Railway stop
Photo: KishujiRapid, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Higobashi Station is a railway station on the Osaka Metro Yotsubashi Line in Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan.
Osaka Science Museum
Museum
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The Osaka Science Museum is a science museum in Naka-no-shima, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan. The museum is located between the Dōjima River and the Tosabori River, above Osaka's subterranean National Museum of Art.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chūō-ku and Doyamacho.
Chūō-ku
Suburb
Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
Chūō-ku is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It has an area of 8.88 km2, and a population of 60,085. It houses Osaka's financial district, as well as the Osaka Prefecture offices and principal shopping and tourist areas.
Doyamacho
Neighborhood
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Dōyamachō is a district in the Umeda area of Osaka, Japan. It is close to the JR Osaka and Umeda Station, many restaurants, bars, izakaya, karaoke, massage parlors, host clubs, hotels, and shops concentrate in the area.
Fukushima-ku
Suburb
Photo: Inoue-hiro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fukushima-ku is one of 24 wards of Osaka city in Japan. The ward is primarily a residential quarter, but has some office buildings and a commercial district, as well as factories and wholesale businesses.
Nakanoshima
Latitude
34.68987° or 34° 41′ 24″ northLongitude
135.49736° or 135° 29′ 51″ eastElevation
11 metres (36 feet)Open location code
8Q6QMFQW+WWOpenStreetMap ID
way 494932999OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Nakanoshima” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Nakanoshima”
- Cebuano: “Nakanoshima (pulo sa Hapon)”
- Cebuano: “Nakanoshima”
- Chinese: “中之岛”
- Chinese: “中之島”
- Dutch: “Nakanoshima”
- Finnish: “Nakanoshima”
- French: “Nakano-shima”
- French: “Nakanoshima”
- Italian: “Nakanoshima”
- Japanese: “中之島”
- Korean: “나카노시마”
- Slovenian: “Nakanoshima”
- Slovenian: “Nakanošima”
- Turkish: “Nakanoshima”
- Ukrainian: “Наканошіма”
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