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Osaka

Ōsaka is the beating heart of 's region and the largest of the Osaka-- trio of cities, with a population of over 17 million people in the greater metropolitan area.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Toyonaka and Osaka castle.

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is a city of about 400,000 in the prefecture . It's located close to the huge city of Osaka and is well connected through public transport.

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The area is in Osaka city. This area consisting of many buildings surrounded by water is home to , Osaka-jo Hall, classical music halls, theaters where you can enjoy the performing arts, hotels, shopping and sports facilities.

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The is the westernmost district of Osaka city. Largely built on reclaimed land, it has large-scale facilities for shopping and entertainment, and has become popular among young people in particular.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Minami and Universal Studios Japan.

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is the largest commercial area in Osaka, . All manner of shops and entertainment can be found in the Area, which stretches from Semba to the area surrounding Namba station.

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is a theme park located in Osaka, . Opened on March 31, 2001, it is one of six Universal Studios theme parks worldwide and was the first to open outside the .

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The is the newest centre of Osaka city. The area around Umeda station, where major terminals for the Osaka subway, Japan Rail, Hankyu and Hanshin railways can be found, boasts department stores, buildings full of fashionable shops and various attractions.

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Tennōji is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It is named after the , the temple of the Four Heavenly Kings, which is located in the ward.

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covers the southern wards of Osaka: Nishinari, Abeno, Ikuno, Sumiyoshi and Hirano. For the central Minami area, see . is the poorest part of the city, with few top-rank attractions.

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Northern Osaka covers the wards of Higashiyodogawa-ku, Nishiyodogawa-ku, and Yodogawa-ku, which sprawl along the northern side of the Yodogawa river.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ōsaka Station and Osaka-jō Hall.

Railway station
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is a major railway station in the district of , Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company. It forms as one of the city's main railway terminals to the north, the other being .

Theater building
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Osaka-jo Hall is a multi-purpose arena located in the Kyōbashi area of Osaka, . The hall opened in 1983 and can seat up to 16,000 people. Built on a site area of 36,351 square meters, part of its form uses stone walls, modeled after those of and it won the Osaka Urban Scenery Architects Prize Special Award in 1984.

Museum
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is a subterranean art museum located on the island of , located between the Dōjima River and the Tosabori River, about 10 minutes west of in central Osaka.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yodogawa-ku and Kita-ku.

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Yodogawa is one of 24 wards of Osaka, . It is located in the north of the city.

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Kita is one of 24 wards of Osaka in Japan.

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Jōtō-ku is one of the 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. "Jōtō" literally means "east of the castle", referring to . It was separated from and in 1943, and eastern Jōtō became in 1974.

Osaka

Latitude
34.6938° or 34° 41′ 38″ north
Longitude
135.5015° or 135° 30′ 5″ east
Population
2,690,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
IATA airport code
OSA
United Nations Location Code
JP OSA
Open location code
8Q6QMGV2+GH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 57563779
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1853909
Wiki­data ID
Q35765
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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Zeeuws—“Osaka” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Осака”
  • Afrikaans: “Oosaka”
  • Afrikaans: “Osaka”
  • Afrikaans: “Ôsaka”
  • Afrikaans: “Ōsaka”
  • Albanian: “Osaka”
  • Amharic: “ኦሳካ”
  • Arabic: “أوزاكا”
  • Arabic: “أوساكا، أوساكا”
  • Arabic: “أوساكا”
  • Arabic: “اوساكا”
  • Arabic: “مدينة أوساكا”
  • Aragonese: “Osaka”
  • Armenian: “Օսակա”
  • Asturian: “Osaka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Osaka”
  • Balinese: “Osaka”
  • Bambara: “Osaka”
  • Bashkir: “Осака”
  • Basque: “Osaka”
  • Basque: “Ōsaka”
  • Bavarian: “Osaka”
  • Belarusian: “Осака”
  • Bengali: “ওসাকা”
  • Bengali: “大阪”
  • Bengali: “大阪市”
  • Betawi: “Osaka”
  • Bosnian: “Osaka”
  • Breton: “Osaka”
  • Bulgarian: “Осака”
  • Burmese: “အိုဆာကာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Oosaka-shi”
  • Catalan: “Oosaka”
  • Catalan: “Oosakashi”
  • Catalan: “Osaka-shi”
  • Catalan: “Ōsaka-shi”
  • Catalan: “Osaka”
  • Catalan: “Ōsaka”
  • Catalan: “Osakashi”
  • Catalan: “Ōsakashi”
  • Catalan: “Ousaka-shi”
  • Catalan: “Ousaka”
  • Catalan: “Ousakashi”
  • Catalan: “大阪”
  • Catalan: “大阪市”
  • Cebuano: “Ōsaka-shi (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Ōsaka-shi (kapital sa prepektura)”
  • Cebuano: “Ōsaka-shi”
  • Central Bikol: “Osaka”
  • Central Kanuri: “Osaka”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئۆساکا”
  • Chamorro: “Osaka”
  • Chechen: “Осака”
  • Cherokee: “ᎣᏌᎧ”
  • Cheyenne: “Osaka”
  • Chinese: “Tāi-pán-chhī”
  • Chinese: “大坂”
  • Chinese: “大阪”
  • Chinese: “大阪市”
  • Chuvash: “Осака”
  • Corsican: “Osaka”
  • Corsican: “Ōsaka”
  • Cree: “ᐅᓴᑲ”
  • Croatian: “Osaka”
  • Croatian: “Ōsaka”
  • Czech: “Osaka”
  • Czech: “Ósaka”
  • Danish: “Osaka”
  • Danish: “Ōsaka”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Osaka”
  • Dotyali: “ओसाका”
  • Dutch: “Osaacke” (historical)
  • Dutch: “Osaka”
  • Dutch: “Ōsaka”
  • Eastern Mari: “Осака”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوساكا”
  • Emilian: “Uśàka”
  • Erzya: “Осака”
  • Esperanto: “Oosaka”
  • Esperanto: “Osako”
  • Estonian: “Osaka”
  • Estonian: “Ōsaka”
  • Ewe: “Osaka”
  • Faroese: “Osaka”
  • Fijian: “Osaka”
  • Finnish: “Oosaka”
  • Finnish: “Osaka”
  • French: “Naniwa”
  • French: “Oosaka”
  • French: “Osaka”
  • French: “Ōsaka”
  • French: “ville d’Osaka”
  • Galician: “Osaca”
  • Galician: “Osaka”
  • Ganda: “Osaka”
  • Georgian: “ოსაკა”
  • German: “Osaka”
  • German: “Ōsaka”
  • German: “大阪”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌰”
  • Gothic: “𐍉𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌰”
  • Greek: “Ōσάκα”
  • Greek: “Οζάκα”
  • Greek: “Οσάκα”
  • Gujarati: “ઓસાકા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thai-fán-sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Osaka”
  • Hebrew: “אוסאקה”
  • Hebrew: “אוסקה”
  • Hindi: “ओसक”
  • Hindi: “ओसाका”
  • Hungarian: “Osaka”
  • Hungarian: “Oszaka”
  • Hungarian: “Ószaka”
  • Iban: “Osaka”
  • Icelandic: “Osaka”
  • Icelandic: “Ósaka”
  • Icelandic: “Ōsaka”
  • Icelandic: “大阪”
  • Ido: “Osaka”
  • Iloko: “Osaka”
  • Inari Sami: “Osaka”
  • Indonesian: “Osaka”
  • Indonesian: “Ōsaka”
  • Interlingua: “Osaka”
  • Interlingue: “Osaka”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐆᓴᑲ”
  • Inupiaq: “Osaka”
  • Irish: “Ósaca”
  • Irish: “Osaka”
  • Irish: “Ōsaka”
  • Italian: “Osaka”
  • Italian: “Ōsaka”
  • Japanese: “Ōsaka-shi”
  • Japanese: “Ōsaka”
  • Japanese: “おおさかし”
  • Japanese: “八百八橋”
  • Japanese: “大大阪”
  • Japanese: “大阪”
  • Japanese: “大阪市”
  • Japanese: “天下の台所”
  • Japanese: “東洋のマンチェスター”
  • Japanese: “水の都”
  • Japanese: “煙の都”
  • Javanese: “Osaka”
  • Kabyle: “Osaka”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Osaka”
  • Kalaallisut: “Osaka”
  • Kannada: “ಒಸಾಕಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಓಸಕ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Osaka”
  • Kashmiri: “اوساکا”
  • Kazakh: “Осака қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Осака”
  • Kikuyu: “Osaka”
  • Kirghiz: “Осака”
  • Korean: “대판 시”
  • Korean: “대판”
  • Korean: “대판시”
  • Korean: “오사까”
  • Korean: “오사카 시”
  • Korean: “오사카”
  • Korean: “오사카시”
  • Korean: “오오사카”
  • Kurdish: “Osaka”
  • Latin: “Osaca”
  • Latin: “Ozaca”
  • Latvian: “Osaka”
  • Latvian: “Ōsaka”
  • Literary Chinese: “大阪市”
  • Lithuanian: “Osaka”
  • Lithuanian: “Osakos miestas”
  • Lombard: “Osaka”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Osaka”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ōsaka-shi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Osaka”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ōsaka”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ōsaka”
  • Macedonian: “Осака”
  • Malagasy: “Osaka”
  • Malay: “Osaka”
  • Malayalam: “ഒസാക്ക”
  • Malayalam: “ഓസക”
  • Maltese: “Osaka”
  • Maori: “Ohaka”
  • Maori: “Osaka”
  • Marathi: “ओसाका”
  • Mazanderani: “اوساکا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Osaka-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ôsaka-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ōsaka-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tāi-pán-chhī”
  • Moksha: “Осака”
  • Mongolian: “Осака”
  • Northern Frisian: “Osaka”
  • Northern Sami: “Osaka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Osaka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ōsaka”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Osaka-shi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ōsaka-shi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Osaka”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ōsaka”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “大阪市”
  • Norwegian: “Osaka”
  • Novial: “Osaka”
  • Nyanja: “Osaka”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Osaka”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ōsaca”
  • Ossetian: “Осакæ”
  • Ossetian: “Осака”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਸਾਕਾ‎”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਸਾਕਾ”
  • Persian: “اوزاکا”
  • Persian: “اوساکا”
  • Piemontese: “Osaka”
  • Polish: “Osaka”
  • Polish: “Ōsaka”
  • Pontic: “Οσάκα”
  • Portuguese: “Osaka”
  • Pushto: “اوساکا”
  • Quechua: “Ōsaka”
  • Romanian: “Osaka”
  • Russia Buriat: “Осака”
  • Russian: “Осака”
  • Rusyn: “Осака”
  • Samogitian: “Osaka”
  • Santali: “ᱳᱥᱟᱠᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Ōsaka”
  • Scots: “Osaka”
  • Scots: “Ōsaka”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Osaka”
  • Serbian: “Осака”
  • Serbian: “大阪市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Osaka”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ōsaka”
  • Sicilian: “Osaka”
  • Sicilian: “Ōsaka”
  • Silesian: “Osaka”
  • Sindhi: “اوساڪا”
  • Sinhala: “ඔසාකා”
  • Sinhala: “ඕසකා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Osaka”
  • Slovak: “Osaka”
  • Slovenian: “Osaka”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوساکا”
  • Spanish: “Namba”
  • Spanish: “Nishi-ku”
  • Spanish: “Oosaka”
  • Spanish: “Osaka”
  • Spanish: “Ósaka”
  • Spanish: “Ōsaka”
  • Spanish: “大阪”
  • Sundanese: “Osaka”
  • Swahili: “Osaka”
  • Swedish: “Osaka”
  • Swedish: “Ōsaka”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Osaka”
  • Tagalog: “Osaka”
  • Tajik: “Осака”
  • Talysh: “Osaka”
  • Tamil: “ஒசாகா”
  • Tamil: “ஒசாக்கா”
  • Tamil: “ஒஸாகா”
  • Tamil: “ஓசக்கா”
  • Tamil: “ஓசாகா”
  • Tatar: “Osaka”
  • Tatar: “Осака”
  • Telugu: “ఒసాకా”
  • Thai: “โอซะกะ”
  • Thai: “โอซากะ”
  • Thai: “โอซาก้า”
  • Tswana: “Osaka”
  • Tumbuka: “Osaka”
  • Turkish: “Osaka”
  • Turkmen: “Osaka”
  • Twi: “Osaka”
  • Udmurt: “Осака”
  • Uighur: “Osaka”
  • Uighur: “ئوساكا”
  • Ukrainian: “Наніва”
  • Ukrainian: “Осака”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Osaka”
  • Urdu: “اوساکا”
  • Uzbek: “Osaka”
  • Veps: “Osak”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại Phản thị”
  • Vietnamese: “Osaka”
  • Vietnamese: “Ōsaka”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Osaka”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Ōsaka”
  • Volapük: “Osaka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Osaka”
  • Welsh: “Osaka”
  • Welsh: “Ōsaka”
  • Western Frisian: “Osaka”
  • Western Panjabi: “اوساکا”
  • Wolof: “Osaka”
  • Wu Chinese: “大阪市”
  • Yakut: “Осака”
  • Yue Chinese: “大阪市”
  • Zeeuws: “Osaka”
  • “ma tomo Osaka”
  • “Osaca”
  • “Osaka”
  • “Ōsaka-shi”
  • “Uśàka”

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