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Maishima (舞洲) is an artificial island located in Konohana-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture Japan.The area is about 220 hectares. [1]One of the three artificial island districts that was the subject of the "Technoport Osaka" [2] plan formulated in 1988 with the aim of developing a new city center.
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A full view of Yumeshima (2015) Yumeshima (夢洲) is an artificial island in Osaka Bay. It is part of Konohana-ku (此花区), one of the 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It is near the mouth of the Yodo River. When all the landfill is completed the total area will be 390 hectares (960 acres). It is the site of Expo 2025, a World's Fair to be held in ...
"Thirteen") is a residential district surrounding Jūsō Station, in Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, Japan. Known primarily for classic Osaka cuisine, and adjacent nightclub and red light districts, the neighborhood lies to the northeast of Osaka's Kita-ku central business district. The core of the area is Jūsō Station, the hub station of the Hankyu ...
Osaka (Japanese: 大阪市, Hepburn: Ōsaka-shi, pronounced; commonly just 大阪, Ōsaka ⓘ) is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture , and the third-most populous city in Japan, following the special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama .
An afternoon in Shinsaibashi. Shinsaibashi (心斎橋) is a district in the Chūō-ku ward of Osaka, Japan and the city's main shopping area.At its center is Shinsaibashi-suji (心斎橋筋), a covered shopping street, that is north of Dōtonbori and Sōemonchō, and parallel and east of Mido-suji street.
In 1614, Osaka castle, the stronghold of the Toyotomi clan, represented the last obstacle to Japan's unification under the Tokugawa hegemony. Toyotomi Hideyori appointed Sanada Yukimura as the garrison commander due to his experience opposing Ieyasu's army in his castle at Ueda during the Sekigahara campaign.
The station name translates as Osaka Castle Park. The station was designed to reflect the architecture of Ōsakajō (Ōsaka Castle), for which the station gets its name. This could be seen in the black and white coloured contrast of the walls, and the green-coloured roofs (representing the iconic colour of corroded copper roofs that Ōsakajō ...