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is a 3 km long and 50 hectares narrow sandbank in Kita-ku,
Osaka 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 Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of ...
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, that divides the Kyū-Yodo into the Tosabori and Dōjima rivers. Many governmental and commercial offices (including the city hall of Osaka), museums and other cultural facilities are located on Nakanoshima.


Landmarks and architecture

(from east to west) * Nakanoshima Park *:Rose garden * Central Public Hall * Nakanoshima Library *City Hall *
Bank of Japan The is the central bank of Japan. Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric. (2005). "Nihon Ginkō" in The bank is often called for short. It has its headquarters in Chūō, Tokyo. History Like most modern Japanese institutions, the Bank of Japan was foun ...
Osaka branch *Nakanoshima Festival Tower (Headquarters of the
Asahi Shimbun is one of the four largest newspapers in Japan. Founded in 1879, it is also one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. Its circulation, which was 4.57 million for its morning edition a ...
) * Nakanoshima Mitsui Building *Headquarters of Kansai Electric Power Company *
Osaka University , abbreviated as , is a public research university located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is one of Japan's former Imperial Universities and a Designated National University listed as a "Top Type" university in the Top Global University Project. ...
Nakanoshima Center * Rihga Royal Hotel * Nakanoshima Centre Building


Cultural facilities

(from east to west) *
Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka The is a Japanese art museum and regarded as one of the best ceramic-collections in the world. This museum collects, studies, conserves, exhibits and interprets East Asian ceramics, which mainly came from ancient China and Korea. The world-famo ...
* Festival Hall (Nakanoshima Festival Tower East) *
National Museum of Art, Osaka is a subterranean Japanese art museum located on the island of Nakanoshima, located between the Dōjima River and the Tosabori River, about 10 minutes west of Higobashi Station in central Osaka. The official Japanese title of the museum tran ...
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Science Museum A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science. Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc. Modern trends in ...
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Osaka International Convention Center , also known as , is a convention center in the city of Osaka, Japan. Located adjacent to the convention center is underground Nakanoshima Station served by Keihan Electric Railway Nakanoshima Line as the terminus. Past events *2001 World To ...


Transportation


Train

* Keihan Electric Railway ** Keihan Main Line:
Yodoyabashi Station is a railway station on the Osaka Metro Midosuji Line and the Keihan Railway Keihan Main Line in Japan. It is the nearest station to the Osaka City Hall (). Lines * ** (M17) * Keihan Electric Railway ** Keihan Main Line Layout Osaka ...
, Kitahama Station ** Nakanoshima Line:
Naniwabashi Station is a railway station on the Keihan Nakanoshima Line in Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan. It opened on October 19, 2008 (the day of the opening of the Nakanoshima Line). Station layout The station consists of an underground island platform serving two t ...
, Ōebashi Station, Watanabebashi Station, Nakanoshima Station * Osaka Municipal Subway ** Midosuji Line:
Yodoyabashi Station is a railway station on the Osaka Metro Midosuji Line and the Keihan Railway Keihan Main Line in Japan. It is the nearest station to the Osaka City Hall (). Lines * ** (M17) * Keihan Electric Railway ** Keihan Main Line Layout Osaka ...
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Yotsubashi Line The is an underground rapid transit line in Osaka, Japan, operated by Osaka Metro. The line connects Umeda, Hommachi, Yotsubashi, Namba, Daikokuchō and Suminoe, and runs parallel to the Midōsuji Line from Daikokuchō to Nishi-Umeda. Its offic ...
: Higobashi Station * Hanshin Electric Railway Main Line: Fukushima Station * JR Tōzai Line:
Shin-Fukushima Station is a railway station in Fukushima-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Line * West Japan Railway Company (JR West) **JR Tōzai Line is one of several commuter rail lines and services in the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto Metropolitan Area, operated ...


Pedestrian road

*Nakanoshima Promenade


See also

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Hotarumachi is a mixed-use redevelopment project in Fukushima-ku ward of Osaka City, Japan, located on the former site of Osaka University Hospital. Facilities *Headquarters of Asahi Broadcasting Corporation *:ABC Hall *Dōjima River Forum (hall) * The ...
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