Namba
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Namba (, ) is a district in Chūō and Naniwa wards of Osaka, Japan. It is regarded as the center of Osaka's Minami (:ja:ミナミ, "South") region. Its name came from a variation of Naniwa, the former name of Osaka. Namba hosts some of the city's main south-central railway terminals, as JR, Kintetsu, Nankai, Hanshin, and three Osaka Metro subway lines all have stations within this region.
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- Namba
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- Chōme
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- Nankai Namba Station & Takashimaya Osaka Department Store
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- Japan Osaka Prefecture#Japan
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- Prefecture
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- City
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- Osaka
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- Osaka
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- Chūō and Naniwa
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Namba (, ) is a district in Chūō and Naniwa wards of Osaka, Japan. It is regarded as the center of Osaka's Minami (:ja:ミナミ, "South") region. Its name came from a variation of Naniwa, the former name of Osaka. Namba hosts some of the city's main south-central railway terminals, as JR, Kintetsu, Nankai, Hanshin, and three Osaka Metro subway lines all have stations within this region.
==Railway stations== Namba Station ●Nankai Electric Railway ●Nankai Line ●Koya Line Osaka Metro ●Midōsuji Line (M20) ●Yotsubashi Line (Y15) ●Sennichimae Line (S16) JR Namba Station ●JR West ●Kansai Main Line (Yamatoji Line) Ōsaka Namba Station ●Kintetsu Namba Line (through service to the Nara Line) ●Hanshin Railway ●Hanshin Namba Line
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Namba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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