Kita-ku
Kita-ku is a ward of the city of Sakai in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The ward has an area of 15.58 km2 and a population of 154,846. The population density is 9,945 per km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 159,000 residents
- Description: one of the seven wards of the City of Sakai, Japan
- Also known as: “Kita Ward” and “Kita-ku, Sakai”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Daisen Kofun and Sakaishi Station.
Daisen Kofun
Archaeological site
Photo: Saigen Jiro, CC0.
The Mozu Tombs are a group of kofun —megalithic tombs—in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Originally consisting of more than 100 tombs, fewer than 50% of the key-hole, round, and rectangular tombs remain.
Sakaishi Station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sakaishi Station is a passenger railway station in located in Sakai-ku, Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company.
Nakamozu Station
Railway station
Photo: KishujiRapid, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nakamozu Station is the name of two adjacent railway stations located in Kita-ku, Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The above ground station is an interchange station operated jointly by the private Nankai Electric Railway and the Semboku Rapid Railway, and the underground station is operated by the Osaka Metro.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Osaka and Sumiyoshi-ku.
South Osaka
Photo: Halowand, CC BY-SA 3.0.
South Osaka covers the southern wards of Osaka: Nishinari, Abeno, Ikuno, Sumiyoshi and Hirano. For the central Minami area, see Minami; for the northern parts of Abeno near Tennoji station, see Tennoji.
Sumiyoshi-ku
Suburb
Sumiyoshi-ku is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It is located on the southern part of the Uemachi Plateau, in the southernmost part of Osaka City, and is separated from Sakai City's Sakai-ku and Kita-ku by the Yamato River. Sumiyoshi-ku is situated 4 km north of Kita-ku.
Sakai Ward
Suburb
Photo: Sakai Yayoi, CC0.
Sakai-ku is a ward of the city of Sakai in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The ward has an area of 23.69 km2 and a population of 147,413. The population density is 6,223 per square kilometer. Sakai Ward is situated 4½ km west of Kita-ku.
Kita-ku
- Categories: ward of Japan and locality
- Location: Sakai, Osaka, Kansai, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.5655° or 34° 33′ 56″ northLongitude
135.5172° or 135° 31′ 2″ eastPopulation
159,000Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)Inception
April 1st, 2006Open location code
8Q6QHG88+6VOpenStreetMap ID
node 551364958OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Yue Chinese—“Kita-ku” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Kita”
- Cebuano: “Kita Ku (subdistrito sa Hapon, Ōsaka-fu, Sakai Shi)”
- Cebuano: “Kita Ku”
- Chinese: “北区”
- Chinese: “北區”
- French: “arrondissement nord”
- French: “Arrondissement Nord”
- French: “Kita-ku”
- German: “Kita-ku”
- Hungarian: “Kita-ku”
- Irish: “Kita-ku”
- Italian: “Kita-ku (Sakai)”
- Italian: “Kita-ku”
- Japanese: “Kita-ku”
- Japanese: “きたく”
- Japanese: “キタク”
- Japanese: “北区”
- Japanese: “堺市北区”
- Korean: “기타구”
- Persian: “کیتا-کو، ساکای”
- Persian: “کیتا-کو”
- Spanish: “Kita-ku”
- Swedish: “Kita-ku”
- Thai: “เขตคิตะ”
- Turkish: “Kita, Sakai”
- Venetian: “Kita-ku”
- Vietnamese: “Kita-ku”
- Yue Chinese: “北區 (堺市)”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include 北区役所 and Sakaishiritsukita Library.
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