Nishinari-ku, Osaka

Location of Nishinari-ku in Osaka City

The rooftops in Nishinari

A shopping arcade in Nishinari

Nishinari-ku (西成区) is one of the 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It contains some shopping and entertainment areas, such as Shinsekai and Tamade. It lies directly south of the Namba transport hub and extends further south toward Sumiyoshi Park. It is served by the Nankai Railway lines as well as the Yotsubashi and Sakaisuji subway lines. Nishinari-ku is also home to a number of shitamachi ("lower-town") shopping streets, increasingly a rarity in fast-developing urban Japan. Kamagasaki in Nishinari-ku is home to a large number of day-laborers and most of the homeless people in Osaka.^[1]

Crime and safety

Two designated yakuza groups, the Sakaume-gumi and the Azuma-gumi, are based in Nishinari.^[2]

Airin Riot in 1961

Transport

West Japan Railway Company

Osaka Loop Line: Shin-Imamiya Station

Osaka Municipal Subway

Midōsuji Line: Dobutsuen-mae Station
Sakaisuji Line: Dobutsuen-mae Station, Tengachaya Station
Yotsubashi Line: Hanazonocho Station, Kishinosato Station, Tamade Station

Nankai Railway

Hankai Railway

Hankai Line: Minamikasumicho Station, Imaike Station, Imafune Station, Matsudacho Station, Kitatengachaya Station, Shotenzaka Station, Tenjinnomori Station, Higashitamade Station, Tsukanishi Station

Education

Public elementary and junior high schools are operated by the Osaka City Board of Education. The public high schools are operated by the Osaka Prefectural Board of Education.

Elementary schools

Imamiya Elementary School
Kishinosato Elementary School
Kitatsumori Elementary School
Koji Elementary School
Senbon Elementary School
Tachibana Elementary School
Tamade Elementary School
Tsumori Elementary School
Tengachaya Elementary School
Nagahashi Elementary School
Haginochaya Elementary School
Bainan Elementary School
Matsunomiya Elementary School
Minamitsumori Elementary School

Junior high schools

Imamiya Junior High School
Tsurumibashi Junior High School
Tengachaya Junior High School
Seinan Junior High School
Bainan Junior High School
Tamade Junior High School

High schools

Imamiya Technical High School
Nishinari High School

Notable people

Yoshie Kashiwabara, singer
Yashiki Takajin, singer and television personality

References

↑ Johnston, Eric, "NISHINARI WARD: In Osaka, a place the homeless call home: Nishinari draws in the forsaken of the nation", Japan Times, December 8, 2009, p. 3.
↑ "2010 Police White Paper Chapter 2 : Furtherance of Organized Crime Countermeasures", 2010, National Police Agency (Japanese)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nishinari-ku, Osaka.

Official website of Nishinari (English)

Osaka Prefecture

Wards of Osaka (capital city)	Abeno Asahi Chūō Fukushima Higashinari Higashisumiyoshi Higashiyodogawa Hirano Ikuno Jōtō Kita Konohana Minato Miyakojima Naniwa Nishi Nishinari Nishiyodogawa Suminoe Sumiyoshi Taishō Tennōji Tsurumi Yodogawa

Wards of Sakai	Higashi Kita Naka Nishi Mihara Minami Sakai

Other cities	Daitō Fujiidera Habikino Hannan Higashiōsaka Hirakata Ibaraki Ikeda Izumi Izumiotsu Izumisano Kadoma Kaizuka Kashiwara Katano Kawachinagano Kishiwada Matsubara Minoh Moriguchi Neyagawa Ōsakasayama Sennan Settsu Shijōnawate Suita Takaishi Takatsuki Tondabayashi Toyonaka Yao

Minamikawachi District	Chihayaakasaka Kanan Taishi

Mishima District	Shimamoto

Senboku District	Tadaoka

Sennan District	Kumatori Misaki Tajiri

Toyono District	Nose Toyono

Coordinates: 34°38′6″N 135°29′40″E / 34.63500°N 135.49444°E / 34.63500; 135.49444

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