Osaka
Ōsaka is the beating heart of Japan's Kansai region and the largest of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto trio of cities, with a population of over 17 million people in the greater metropolitan area.Photo: Kyoww, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Popular Destinations
Osaka castle
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The Osaka Castle area is in Osaka city. This area consisting of many buildings surrounded by water…
Destinations
Kita
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The Kita is the newest centre of Osaka city. The area around Umeda station, where major terminals…
Tennoji
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Tennōji is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It is named after the Shitennō-ji, the temple of the Four Heavenly Kings, which is located in the ward.
Universal Studios Japan
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Universal Studios Japan is a theme park resort in the Bay Area district of Osaka, Japan.
North Osaka
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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.
South Osaka
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South Osaka covers the southern wards of Osaka: Nishinari, Abeno, Ikuno, Sumiyoshi and Hirano.
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Notable Places in the Area
Umeda Sky Building
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34°42′19″N 135°29′23″E / 34.70528°N 135.48972°E The Umeda Sky Building is two-tower mixed-use skyscraper located in Osaka,Japan.
Ōsaka Station
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Ōsaka Station is a major railway station in the Umeda district of Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company.
Osaka-jō Hall
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Osaka-jō Hall is a multi-purpose arena located in the Kyōbashi area of Osaka, Japan.
Localities in the Area
Yodogawa-ku
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Yodogawa is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It is located in the north of the city.
Kita-ku
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Kita is one of 24 wards of Osaka in Japan. Location of Kita-ku in Osaka CityUmeda Sky Building…
Joto-ku
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Jōtō-ku is one of the 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. "Jōtō" means "east of the castle", referring to Osaka Castle.
Osaka
- Type: City with 2,690,000 residents
- Description: city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan
- Neighbors: Amagasaki, Sakai, Suita, Toyonaka and Yao
- Categories: city designated by government ordinance, prefectural capital of Japan, port settlement, city of Japan, metropolis, former capital, megacity, city for international conferences and tourism and locality
- Location: Osaka, Kansai, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.6938° or 34° 41' 38" northLongitude
135.5015° or 135° 30' 5" eastPopulation
2,690,000Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)IATA airport code
OSAUnited Nations Location Code
JP OSAOpen Location Code
8Q6QMGV2+GHOpenStreetMap ID
node 57563779OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1853909Wikidata ID
Q35765Osaka Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Osaka
- Adyghe: Осака
- Afar: Osaka
- Afrikaans: Oosaka
- Afrikaans: Osaka
- Afrikaans: Ôsaka
- Afrikaans: Ōsaka
- Akan: Osaka
- Albanian: Osaka
- Amharic: ኦሳካ
- Arabic: Osaka
- Arabic: أوزاكا
- Arabic: أوساكا
- Arabic: أوساكا، 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
- Bosnian: Osaka
- Breton: Osaka
- Bulgarian: Осака
- Burmese: အိုဆာကာမြို့
- Catalan: Oosaka-shi
- Catalan: Oosaka
- Catalan: Oosakashi
- Catalan: Osaka-shi
- Catalan: Osaka
- Catalan: Osakashi
- Catalan: Ousaka-shi
- Catalan: Ousaka
- Catalan: Ousakashi
- Catalan: Ōsaka-shi
- Catalan: Ōsaka
- Catalan: Ōsakashi
- Catalan: 大阪
- Catalan: 大阪市
- Cebuano: Ōsaka-shi (distrito)
- Cebuano: Ōsaka-shi (kapital sa prepektura)
- Cebuano: Ōsaka-shi
- Central Bikol: 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/大阪
- Chinese: 大阪市
- Chuvash: Осака
- Cree: ᐅᓴᑲ
- Croatian: Osaka
- Croatian: Ōsaka
- Czech: Osaka
- Czech: Ósaka
- Danish: Osaka
- Danish: Ōsaka
- Dimli (individual language): Osaka
- Dotyali: ओसाका
- Dutch (Historic): Osaacke
- Dutch: Osaka
- Dutch: Ōsaka
- Egyptian Arabic: اوساكا
- English: Osaka-shi
- English: Osaka City
- 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
- Galician: Osaca - 大阪市
- Galician: Osaca
- Galician: Osaka
- Ganda: Osaka
- Georgian: ოსაკა
- German: Osaka
- German: Ôsaka
- German: Ōsaka
- German: 大阪市
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌰
- Greek: Ōσάκα
- Greek: Οζάκα
- Greek: Οσάκα
- Gujarati: ઓસાકા
- Hakka Chinese: Thai-fán-sṳ
- Hausa: Osaka
- Hausa: Thai-fán-sṳ
- Hebrew: אוסאקה
- Hebrew: אוסקה
- Hindi: ओसक
- Hindi: ओसाका
- Hungarian: Osaka
- Hungarian: Oszaka
- Hungarian: Ószaka
- Icelandic: Osaka
- Icelandic: Ósaka
- Icelandic: 大阪
- Ido: Osaka
- Iloko: Osaka
- Inari Sami: Osaka
- Indonesian: Osaka
- Indonesian: Ōsaka
- Interlingua: Osaka
- Interlingue: Osaka
- Inuktitut: ᐆᓴᑲ
- Inupiaq: Osaka
- Irish: Ósaca
- 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
- Kalaallisut: Osaka
- Kannada: ಒಸಾಕಾ
- Kannada: ಓಸಕ
- Kara-Kalpak: Osaka
- Kazakh: Осака
- Kazakh: Осака қаласы
- Kikuyu: Osaka
- Kirghiz: Осака
- Korean: 대판
- Korean: 대판시
- Korean: 대판 시
- Korean: 오사까
- Korean: 오사카
- Korean: 오사카 시
- Korean: 오사카시
- Korean: 오오사카
- Kurdish: Osaka
- Lao: Osaka
- Latin: Osaca
- Latin: Ozaca
- Latvian: Osaka
- Latvian: Ōsaka
- Literary Chinese: 大阪市
- Lithuanian: Osaka
- Lithuanian: Osakos miestas
- Lower Sorbian: Osaka
- Luxembourgish: Osaka
- Luxembourgish: Ōsaka-shi
- Luxembourgish: Ōsaka
- Macedo-Romanian: Ōsaka
- Macedonian: Осака
- Malagasy: Osaka
- Malay: Osaka
- Malayalam: ഒസാക്ക
- Malayalam: ഓസക
- Maltese: Osaka
- Maori: Ohaka
- Marathi: ओसाका
- Mazanderani: اوساکا
- Min Nan Chinese: Osaka-chhī
- Min Nan Chinese: Tāi-pán-chhī
- Min Nan Chinese: Ôsaka-chhī
- Min Nan Chinese: Ōsaka-chhī
- Mongolian: Осака
- Northern Frisian: Osaka
- Northern Sami: Osaka
- Norwegian: Osaka
- Norwegian Bokmål: Osaka
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ōsaka
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Osaka-shi
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Osaka
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Ōsaka-shi
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Ōsaka
- Norwegian Nynorsk: 大阪市
- Novial: Osaka
- Nyanja: Osaka
- Occitan (post 1500): Osaka
- 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: 大阪市
- 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: 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: Osaka
- Vietnamese: Thành phố Osaka
- Vietnamese: Thành phố Ōsaka
- Vietnamese: Đại Phản thị
- 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
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Osaka. Photo: Kaiza96, CC BY-SA 3.0.