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city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

Osaka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Osaka Prefecture has a population of 8,778,035 () and has a geographic area of . Osaka Prefecture borders Hyōgo Prefecture to the northwest, Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Nar ...

, Japan. It is a suburban city of

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 ...

City and a part of the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area. Ibaraki translates to "wild trees" or "thorny trees". The city was incorporated on 1 January 1948. As of February 2017, the city has an estimated population of 280,562 and a population density of 3,580 persons per km². The total area is 76.52 km².

Transportation

Railways

West Japan Railway Company , also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu. It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and ...

JR Kyoto Line The is a commuter rail line in the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto Metropolitan Area owned and operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). The name applies to the section of the Tōkaidō Main Line between Kyōto Station and Ōsaka Station. The Kyot ...

Ibaraki Station 250px, East Entrance 250px, Ticket Gate is a railway station on the West Japan Railway Company JR Kyoto Line (Tōkaidō Main Line between Kyoto and Osaka) in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. History Ibaraki Station opened on 9 August 1876. ...

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JR-Sōjiji Station is a railway station in Ibaraki, Osaka, Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). Line JR-Sōjiji Station is served by the JR Kyoto Line (Tōkaidō Main Line). Layout The station has one island platform ...

* Hankyu Railway **

Hankyu Kyoto Line The is a railway line in Japan operated by the private railway operator Hankyu Railway. It connects Osaka-umeda Station in Osaka and Kyoto-kawaramachi Station in Kyoto. Definition The Kyoto Main Line is often called the for short, and in a ...

Minami-Ibaraki Station 270px, Osaka Monorail Minami-Ibaraki Station , is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the private transportation company Hankyu Railway and the Osaka Monorail. Lines ...

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Ibaraki-shi Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the private transportation company Hankyu Railway. Lines Ibaraki-shi Station is served by the Hankyu Kyoto Line, and is located 14.8 ...

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Sōjiji Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the private transportation company Hankyu Railway. Lines Sōjiji Station is served by the Hankyu Kyoto Line, and is located 16.2 kilom ...

Osaka Monorail The is a monorail system in northern Osaka Prefecture, Japan, operated by . At long, it is the second longest monorail system in the world after the Chongqing Monorail and the longest monorail system in Japan. It links the three campuses o ...

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Sawaragi Station is a monorail station on the Osaka Monorail located in Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan. Lines *Osaka Monorail Main Line (Station Number: 20) Layout There is an island platform and two tracks elevated. The platform is sealed in with glass walls and doo ...

**Saito Line

Handai-byōin-mae Station is a monorail station on the Osaka Monorail located in Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan. The name means the "station in front of Osaka University Hospital." Lines *Osaka Monorail Saito Line (Station Number: 52) Layout There is an island platform ...

– Toyokawa Station– Saito-nishi Station

Highways

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Education

Prefectural public senior high schools: * * * * * * Private junior and senior high schools: * * * * Korea International School, a Korean international junior and senior high school, is in Ibaraki. Private senior high schools: * *

Sister and friendship cities

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, Minnesota, United States – Sister city agreement concluded in 1980 *

Anqing Anqing (, also Nganking, formerly Hwaining, now the name of Huaining County) is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Anhui province, People's Republic of China. Its population was 4,165,284 as of the 2020 census, with 804,493 living in the ...

, Anhui, China – Friendship city agreement concluded in 1985 * Shōdoshima, Kagawa, Japan – Sister city agreement concluded in 1988 (with former Uchinomi town) * Taketa, Ōita, Japan – History cultural sister city agreement concluded in 2013

Notable people from Ibaraki, Osaka

Ryota Hama (born November 21, 1979) is a retired Japanese sumo wrestler and current professional wrestler, signed to Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) in the Strong BJ division. Sumo career Hama joined sumo in July 1995, and he fought for the Hakkaku stable ...

, Japanese

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and retired

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* Satoshi Ishii, Japanese-Croatian

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Kusunoki Masashige was a Japanese samurai of the Kamakura period remembered as the ideal of samurai loyalty. Kusunoki fought for Emperor Go-Daigo in the Genkō War to overthrow the Kamakura shogunate and restore power in Japan to the Imperial Court. Kusunoki ...

, Japanese

samurai were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retainers of the '' daimyo'' (the great feudal landholders). They ...

of the

Kamakura period The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura by the first ''shōgun'' Minamoto no Yoritomo after the conclusion of the Genpei War, which saw the struggle b ...

Taiga Matsuo is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars The are a professional baseball team in the Japanese Central League. Their home field is Yokohama Stadium, located in central Yokohama. The team ...

, professional Japanese

baseball player Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

Yasumichi Morita is an interior designer from Ibaraki, Osaka. He undertakes projects in many countries including Japan, New York and Hong Kong. Biography Early life and education Morita was born as the eldest son of four brothers. Due to his father's occupati ...

interior designer Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space. An interior designer is someone who plans, researches, coordi ...

Katagiri Katsumoto was a Japanese warlord (''daimyō'') of Ibaraki, in the Azuchi–Momoyama period through early Edo period. In his youth was famed as one of the Seven Spears of Shizugatake, during the Battle of Shizugatake in May 1583. Biography Katsumoto hai ...

, Japanese

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daimyō were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and nominall ...

of the

Azuchi–Momoyama period The was the final phase of the in Japanese history from 1568 to 1600. After the outbreak of the Ōnin War in 1467, the power of the Ashikaga Shogunate effectively collapsed, marking the start of the chaotic Sengoku period. In 1568, Oda Nobuna ...

through early

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was character ...

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Hiroyuki Onoue (born July 16, 1985), is a Japanese actor from Osaka Prefecture. Selected filmography TV drama *''Doremisora'' (2002) *''Journey Under the Midnight Sun'' (2006) *''Ryōmaden'' (2010), Itō Shunsuke *''Carnation'' (2011) *''Hana Moyu'' (2015) * ...

, Japanese actor * Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer, actor and lyricist ( Kanjani Eight) *

Yu Shimasaki is a former Japanese football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where th ...

, former Japanese

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Chisato Moritaka (born 11 April 1969) is a Japanese pop singer who also is notable as a songwriter. She is affiliated with Up-Front Create, a subsidiary of the Up-Front Group.

, Japanese pop singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist *

Tatsuo Kamon , real name , is a Japanese singer-songwriter born 25 March 1959 in Ibaraki, Osaka, Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He is represented by the talent management firm Daikan'yama Production, and releases works through Daipro-X, a record company wh ...

, Japanese singer-songwriter *

Takaharu Nishino is a Japanese football player who currently plays as a defender for Kamatamare Sanuki. Career statistics Club Last update: ''2 December 2018'' 1 includes J. League Championship and Japanese Super Cup appearances. ;Reserves performance H ...

, Japanese

Mizuki Ichimaru is a Japanese football player. He is currently contracted to Gamba Osaka in J1 League. His regular paying position is central midfielder. Club career Born and raised in Osaka, Ichimaru came through the youth ranks at Gamba Osaka and earned hi ...

, Japanese

Manabu Ikeda is a former Japanese football player. Playing career Ikeda was born in Ibaraki on July 3, 1980. After graduating from Shimizu Commercial High School, he joined the J1 League club Urawa Reds in 1999. He played many matches as center back during ...

, former Japanese

Sayaka Yamamoto is a Japanese singer and songwriter signed to Universal Sigma. She is a former member of the Japanese idol girl group NMB48, where she served as captain of both the whole group as well as Team N, and a former member of AKB48's Team K. She mad ...

, Japanese

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(

NMB48 NMB48 (read "N.M.B. Forty-eight") is a Japanese idol group that debuted in 2011 as the second sister group to AKB48, produced by Yasushi Akimoto. NMB48 is named after the Namba district in Osaka city of Osaka Prefecture, where the group is base ...

and

AKB48 AKB48 (pronounced ''A.K.B. Forty-Eight'') is a Japanese idol girl group named after the Akihabara (''Akiba'' for short) area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located. AKB48's producer, Yasushi Akimoto, wanted to form a girl group with i ...

) * Atsushi Kimura, former Japanese

Shinichi Terada is a Japanese football player who plays for Ococias Kyoto AC. Career On 6 January 2020, Terada joined Ococias Kyoto AC. Club statistics ''Updated to 23 February 2018''.Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社"2017 ...

, Japanese

Takuto Hayashi is a Japanese football player who plays for Sanfrecce Hiroshima. Playing career Hayashi was born in Ibaraki on 9 August 1982. After graduating from high school, he joined J1 League club Sanfrecce Hiroshima in 2001. However he could hardly play ...

, Japanese

Kenji Matsuda is a Japanese actor. Matsuda began acting in high school when a girl he had a crush on convinced him to join the theatre club. He later joined the sho-gekijo theatrical troupe Haiyu-Za. Nowadays known for roles such as Kagero in the low-budget f ...

, Japanese actor *

Teruo Sugihara was a Japanese professional golfer. Sugihara was born in Osaka. He won 28 tournaments and over ¥630 million on the Japan Golf Tour. He also won the 1969 Hong Kong Open. Professional wins (60) Japan Golf Tour wins (28) ''*Note: The 1990 Bri ...

, Japanese

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Yuta Nakatsuka Yuta Nakatsuka (中務裕太 Nakatsuka Yuta, born 7 January 1993) is a Japanese Dancer and actor, He is one of the performers of the Japanese all-male dance and music group Generations from Exile Tribe. Nakatsuka is represented with LDH. Earl ...

, Japanese Dancer and actor ( Generations from Exile Tribe)

References

External links

Ibaraki city official website
Cities in Osaka Prefecture {{Osaka-geo-stub