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Get Translation Browser Short props | Help Google Text and Web Search Results Relocate Text Original text: Automatically translated text: The town of Osaka is the capital of the rich person prefecture éponyme. It seems that its foundation goes up in IIIème century. The city bears the name of Naniwa then and develops around its port. The city makes unquestionable great strides when the emperor Tenji (626/662/672) indicates it like capital and that during approximately 200 years. However the decision of Toyotomi Hideyoshi which builds an important cheap accomodation in 1583 there and pushes many traders to be settled in the city will be the decisive impulse on the economic takeoff of the city. Osaka becomes at the beginning of the XXème century a very important industrial city. Object of many bombardments during the second world war, the city, shaven, is rebuilt at the end of the war in a little controlled way. The years passing a resolutely contemporary and modern architecture today is preached with each corner of street. With its almost 3.000.000 million hearts and a density de11 830 hab/km in May 2003, Osaka is nowadays the third Japanese city of the archipelago behind Tokyo and Yokohama. Géographie Osaka is located on banks centers western inland sea of the island of Honshu in bay of Osaka. It is sprinkled by the Yodogawa river and its many ramifications which form many islands. Largest from these islands the name of Naka No Shima carries. Some of the islands now existing are the fruit of the work of the man and were gained on the sea. He goes from there thus from the Saki-Shima islands and May-Shima. Economy, seen Above TRAVELof the harbour infrastructures of the town of Osaka. Almost at the beginning of its history Osaka knew a dynamic activity. The city is re-elected for its production of rice, its electric and automobile industries. The port of Osaka is the third larger port in tonnage (33 550.000 tons. Source: http://www.city.osaka.jp/french/). The city obtains infrastructures to the international radiation gradually in order to promote its trade and its industry. A thus was created an exhibition site of 70.000m2, international Exhibition Center: http://www.intex-osaka.com/; Asia and Pacific Trade Center: http://www.atc-co.com/atc_hp/ and the international airport of Kansai. An Internet site in English language is available in order to promote the investments in the urban centre of Osaka (Osaka Business & Investment Center (O-BIC)): http://o-bic.net/ Transports Osaka is HOW TOible by road, trains and plane. On the spot the city has an important network of bus and subway which will enable you to move easily. By plane: The airport nearest is the international airport of Kansai builds entirely on a 4 km long artificial island. See the anglophone site: http://www.kansai-airport.or.jp/english/index.htm. Another airport déssert the city but this one is primarily dedicated to the interior flight. It is about the airport of itami located at 14 kilometer of Osaka. By train: Very practical if you come from another Japanese city (Tokyo, Kyoto, Shîn-kôbe, Fukuoka, Okayama, Hiroshima.) Shinkansen (high-speed train) stops at the station of Osaka regularly located at the North of the city. For that take the Tôkaidô line. A Tokyo/Osaka way takes approximately 2h30. By Boat: many a CHEAP TICKETScoming from all Japan (Beppu, kôbe, kôchi.) serve Nankô International Final CHEAP TICKETS. The subway: It is easy to use and is composed of 7 lines. Most practical are the lines mido-suji which crosses north to the south the city in its medium by serving the most important stations (Osaka, Shin-Osaka, namba.)and circular line JR Kanjo serving the center of the city. There are fixed prices for the day authorizing you an unlimited use of the subway (lines JR are not included/understood in this fixed price). The town of capital Osaka is the of the rich person prefecture éponyme. It seems that its foundation goes up in IIIème century. The city bears the name of Naniwa then and develops around its port. The city makes unquestionable great strides when the emperor Tenji (626/662/672) indicates it like capital and that during approximately 200 years. However the decision of Toyotomi Hideyoshi which builds important year cheap accomodation in 1583 there and pushes many traders to Be settled in the city will Be the decisive pulse one the economic takeoff of the city. Osaka becomes At the beginning of the XXème century has very important industrial city. Object of many bombardments during the second world war, the city, shaven, is rebuilt At the end of the war in A little controlled way. The years passing has resolutely contemporary and modern architecture today is preached with each corner of street. With its almost 3.000.000 million hearts and has density de11 830 hab/km in May 2003, Osaka is nowadays the third Japanese city of the archipelago behind Tokyo and Yokohama. Géographie Osaka is located on banks centers western inland sea of the island of Honshu in bay of Osaka. It is sprinkled by the Yodogawa river and its many ramifications which form many islands. Largest from these islands the name of Naka No Shima carries. Some of the islands now existing are the fruit of the work of the man and were gained on the sea. He goes from there thus from the Saki-Shima islands and May-Shima. Economy, seen Above TRAVELof the harbour infrastructures of the town of Osaka. Almost at the beginning of its history Osaka knew a dynamic activity. The city is re-elected for its production of rice, its electric and automobile industries. The port of Osaka is the third larger port in tonnage (33 550.000 tons. Source: http://www.city.osaka.jp/french/). The city obtains infrastructures to the international radiation gradually in order to promote its trade and its industry. A thus was created an exhibition site of 70.000m2, international Exhibition Center: http://www.intex-osaka.com/; Asia and Pacific Trade Center: http://www.atc-co.com/atc_hp/ and the international airport of Kansai. An Internet site in English language is available in order to promote the investments in the urban centre of Osaka (Osaka Business & Investment Center (O-BIC)): http://o-bic.net/ Transports Osaka is HOW TOible by road, trains and plane. On the spot the city has an important network of bus and subway which will enable you to move easily. By plane: The airport nearest is the international airport of Kansai builds entirely on a 4 km long artificial island. See the anglophone site: http://www.kansai-airport.or.jp/english/index.htm. Another airport déssert the city but this one is primarily dedicated to the interior flight. It is about the airport of itami located at 14 kilometer of Osaka. By train: Very practical if you come from another Japanese city (Tokyo, Kyoto, Shîn-kôbe, Fukuoka, Okayama, Hiroshima.) Shinkansen (high-speed train) stops at the station of Osaka regularly located at the North of the city. For that take the Tôkaidô line. A Tokyo/Osaka way takes approximately 2h30. By Boat: many a CHEAP TICKETScoming from all Japan (Beppu, kôbe, kôchi.) serve Nankô International Final CHEAP TICKETS. The subway: It is easy to use and is composed of 7 lines. Most practical are the lines mido-suji which crosses north to the south the city in its medium by serving the most important stations (Osaka, Shin-Osaka, namba.)and circular line JR Kanjo serving the center of the city. There are fixed prices for the day authorizing you an unlimited use of the subway (lines JR are not included/understood in this fixed price). Suggest a better translation Thank you for contributing your translation suggestion to Google Translate. We'll use your suggestion to improve translation quality in future updates to our system. The town of Osaka is the capital of the rich person prefecture éponyme. It seems that its foundation goes up in IIIème century. The city bears the name of Naniwa then and develops around its port. The city makes unquestionable great strides when the emperor Tenji (626/662/672) indicates it like capital and that during approximately 200 years. However the decision of Toyotomi Hideyoshi which builds an important cheap accomodation in 1583 there and pushes many traders to be settled in the city will be the decisive impulse on the economic takeoff of the city. Osaka becomes at the beginning of the XXème century a very important industrial city. Object of many bombardments during the second world war, the city, shaven, is rebuilt at the end of the war in a little controlled way. The years passing a resolutely contemporary and modern architecture today is preached with each corner of street. With its almost 3.000.000 million hearts and a density de11 830 hab/km in May 2003, Osaka is nowadays the third Japanese city of the archipelago behind Tokyo and Yokohama. Géographie Osaka is located on banks centers western inland sea of the island of Honshu in bay of Osaka. It is sprinkled by the Yodogawa river and its many ramifications which form many islands. Largest from these islands the name of Naka No Shima carries. Some of the islands now existing are the fruit of the work of the man and were gained on the sea. He goes from there thus from the Saki-Shima islands and May-Shima. Economy, seen Above TRAVELof the harbour infrastructures of the town of Osaka. Almost at the beginning of its history Osaka knew a dynamic activity. The city is re-elected for its production of rice, its electric and automobile industries. The port of Osaka is the third larger port in tonnage (33 550.000 tons. Source: http://www.city.osaka.jp/french/). The city obtains infrastructures to the international radiation gradually in order to promote its trade and its industry. A thus was created an exhibition site of 70.000m2, international Exhibition Center: http://www.intex-osaka.com/; Asia and Pacific Trade Center: http://www.atc-co.com/atc_hp/ and the international airport of Kansai. An Internet site in English language is available in order to promote the investments in the urban centre of Osaka (Osaka Business & Investment Center (O-BIC)): http://o-bic.net/ Transports Osaka is HOW TOible by road, trains and plane. On the spot the city has an important network of bus and subway which will enable you to move easily. By plane: The airport nearest is the international airport of Kansai builds entirely on a 4 km long artificial island. See the anglophone site: http://www.kansai-airport.or.jp/english/index.htm. Another airport déssert the city but this one is primarily dedicated to the interior flight. It is about the airport of itami located at 14 kilometer of Osaka. By train: Very practical if you come from another Japanese city (Tokyo, Kyoto, Shîn-kôbe, Fukuoka, Okayama, Hiroshima.) Shinkansen (high-speed train) stops at the station of Osaka regularly located at the North of the city. For that take the Tôkaidô line. A Tokyo/Osaka way takes approximately 2h30. By Boat: many a CHEAP TICKETScoming from all Japan (Beppu, kôbe, kôchi.) serve Nankô International Final CHEAP TICKETS. The subway: It is easy to use and is composed of 7 lines. Most practical are the lines mido-suji which crosses north to the south the city in its medium by serving the most important stations (Osaka, Shin-Osaka, namba.)and circular line JR Kanjo serving the center of the city. There are fixed prices for the day authorizing you an unlimited use of the subway (lines JR are not included/understood in this fixed price).
Osaka-jo cheap accomodation (Kyobashi Station) bands in the park on weekends; Universal Studios Japan; Den-Den Town (electronics shopping area in Daikokucho), Umeda , Shinsaibashi and Namba for shopping and nightlife, Osaka Aquarium .
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Tourist information centres in Kansai International Airport, JR Osaka Station (tel 06-6345-2189), Shin-Osaka Station (tel 06-6305- 3311), JR Namba Station under the OCAT train terminus (tel 06-6643-2125), Tennoji Station (tel 06-6774-3077).
-International ATMs OCAT Building, Namba; OPA Building Shinsaibashi.
See also
Kansai Time Out magazine (English language) www.kto.co.jp
Kansai Scene magazine (English language) www.kansaiscene.com
Osaka Nagai Stadium
Osaka Nagai Stadium is home to the J-League's Cerezo Osaka. Midosuji Line Subway to Nagai station - more stadium info
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Nightlife areas: Umeda , Namba (Nanba), Shinsaibashi and America-mura.
Fine dining, cool Hostels, jazz and raucous Ryokanbing - Osaka has it all. 
HOW TO
Transport Osaka is HOW TOible by road, trains and plane. On the spot the city has an important network of bus and subway which will enable you to move easily. By plane: The airport nearest is the international airport of Kansai builds entirely on a 4 km long artificial island. See the anglophone site: http://www.kansai-airport.or.jp/english/index.htm. Another airport déssert the city but this one is primarily dedicated to the interior flight. It is about the airport of itami located at 14 kilometer of Osaka. By train: Very practical if you come from another Japanese city (Tokyo, Kyoto, Shîn-kôbe, Fukuoka, Okayama, Hiroshima.) Shinkansen (high-speed train) stops at the station of Osaka regularly located at the North of the city. For that take the Tôkaidô line. A Tokyo/Osaka way takes approximately 2h30. By Boat: many a CHEAP TICKETScoming from all Japan (Beppu, kôbe, kôchi.) serve Nankô International Final CHEAP TICKETS. The subway: It is easy to use and is composed of 7 lines.
Most practical are the lines mido-suji which crosses north to the south the city in its medium by serving the most important stations (Osaka, Shin-Osaka, namba.)and circular line JR Kanjo serving the center of the city. There are fixed prices for the day authorizing you an unlimited use of the subway (lines JR are not included/understood in this fixed price). Bus: For the tourists, the city set up "Osaka City Loop Drunk"". They are multilingual buses connecting all the great tourist centers of the city according to several routes. There are to date 2 circuits proposed, one for the north of the city (Drunk blue), the other for the south (Drunk Yellow). To locate itself Contrary to Kyoto and Tokyo, Osaka has the undeniable advantage to have many streets named and posted in Latin letters. Combined with presence of many marks bench that the rivers form which cross it, a well thought subway and with descriptive clear, Osaka makes easy to live and where it is easy to move.
Tourism It is a modern city which in spite of a construction according to fast war and an architecture sometimes furiously modern, knew to cultivate an art of living which is clean for him through its restaurants, its night life, its dialect the culinary Osaka-Ben and his innovations. It is true that left this "state of mind" the city is not very attractive from a plastic point of view; here however some jewels which Osaka conceals: The North or the district of Kita-ku. It is in this district that you will find the greatest concentration of underground shopping centres (Whitney Osaka, Umada chaka Underground Center.), of hotels and restaurants. To also see the Taiyu-ji ryokan, For you to return there: to go down to the stations Osaka, Fukushima or Umeda. Umeda Sky Building is a building made up of two turns of glasses joined together with 150 meters height by the observatory of the floating garden which offers a sight amazing on the city. the HOW TO to the paying observatory, is done by an elevator of glass. For you to return there: to go down to the stations Osaka or Umeda. city information / tips of Eastern Ceramics. This city information / tips of ceramics at the paying entry and sheltering more than one thousand of parts coming from all Asia is located on the island of Nakanoshima.
It is HOW TOible by the subway by taking the Mido-suji line and by stopping you to the Yodoyabashi station. The North-East or the district of Chuo-ku Osaka-Jô (cheap accomodation of Osaka) which was built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi between 1583 and 1586 before being destroyed for the last time at the time of the second world war. The entry is paying. It shelters a modest collection of armours and weapons of the feudal time and a pleasant garden in spring at the time of the flowering of the cherry trees. More on the history of the cheap accomodation of Osaka, to click here. For you to return there to take the subway line JR Kanjo and to go down to the Morinomiya station. Osaka City city information / tips is the city information / tips of the history of the city. The entry is paying. For you to return there to take the subway line Tanimachi to go down to the Tanimachi-yonchome station. city information / tips of art Fujita: this paying city information / tips joins together Asian objets d'art having belonged to Fujita Densaburô. Panasonic public garden of Matsushita allows you, in a ludic and educational way, to try out the high-tech in all these forms. To also see Osaka Peace Center, the Sony tower, the city information / tips idemitsu and more in the south in the Minami-ku district, the rice gallery. South and south-east or the district of Minami-ku and the district of Tennoji-ku. It is the district of the theatres and the cinemas. Is located thus close to the channel the theatres Nazaka, Kadoza, Dotombori Toei and famous "the National Bunkaru Theater" HOW TOible by taking the subway line Nipponbashi and by stopping you to the Sakaisuji station. More in the south you will find: in the vicinity du parc Tenno-ji,
TRAVEL
9 flights daily from Tokyo(1 hour) to both Osaka Itami Airport and Kansai International. From Kansai International Airport to downtown Osaka in under an hour by JR "Haruka" train, Nankai "rapi:t" train or airport bus. The regular JR kanku kaisoku from Osaka station, Kyobashi, and Namba takes just over an hour and 50 minutes from Tennoji.
Train
Tokyo to Osaka by Tokaido Shinkansen Nozomi super-express (2 hours thirty minutes) or Hikari Shinkansen (2 hours fifty-five minutes) stopping at Kyoto, Nagoya and Hammamatsu. Heading south there are Shinkansen connections to Kobe , Hiroshima , Fukuoka and Okinawa.
Other HOTEL RESERVATION / BOOKING ONLINEconnections to Kyoto (JR and Hanyku Lines from Umeda and Keihan Line from Yodoyabashi), Kobe (JR and Hankyu Lines from Umeda), Nagoya (Kintetsu from Namba & Tsuruhashi) and Nara (Kintetsu from Namba & Tsuruhashi).
The JR Osaka Loop Line ( kanjo-sen ) is one of Osaka's main HOTEL RESERVATION / BOOKING ONLINEarteries and connects with many subway and suburban lines, as well as being close to many of Osaka's main hotel ist sights .
Bus
There are day and night connections to most large cities in Japan including Tokyo, Nagoya and Nagasaki .
CHEAP TICKETS
CHEAP TICKETSservices to Beppu and Miyazaki in Kyushu and Kochi, Matsuyama, Takamatsu (hydrofoil) and Tokushima (hydrofoil) in Shikoku. There are also ferries to Shanghai leaving Osaka Nanko twice a month.
Tourist Information
Osaka Visitors' Information Center
Tel: 06 6305 3311
JR Shin Osaka Station
Osaka hotel ist Information Center
Tel: 0724 56 6025
Kansai International Airport
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