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Namba

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About the neighborhood

District of Osaka, Japan

Namba (Japanese: 難波, IPA: 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 References

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