Nishinari-ku, Osaka
Nishinari-ku (西成区) is ane o the 24 wairds o Osaka, Japan. It contains some shoppin an entertainment auries, such as Shinsekai an Tamade. It lies directly sooth o the Namba transport hub an extends further sooth toward Sumiyoshi Park. It is servit bi the Nankai Railway lines as well as the Yotsubashi an Sakaisuji subwey lines. Nishinari-ku is hame tae a nummer o 'shitamachi' ("lower-town") shoppin streets, increasingly a rarity in fast-developin urban Japan. Kamagasaki in Nishinari-ku is hame tae a lairge nummer o day-laborers an maist o the hameless fowk in Osaka.[1]
Creeme an safety
[eedit | eedit soorce]Twa designatit yakuza groups, the Sakaume-gumi an the Azuma-gumi, are based in Nishinari.[2]
Transport
[eedit | eedit soorce]West Japan Railway Company
[eedit | eedit soorce]Osaka Municipal Subway
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Midōsuji Line: Dobutsuen-mae Station
- Sakaisuji Line: Dobutsuen-mae Station, Tengachaya Station
- Yotsubashi Line: Hanazonocho Station, Kishinosato Station, Tamade Station
Nankai Railway
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Nankai Main Line: Shin-Imamiya Station, Tengachaya Station, Kishinosatotamade Station
- Kōya Line: Shin-Imamiya Station, Haginochaya Station, Tengachaya Station, Kishinosatotamade Station
- Shiomibashi Line: Kizugawa Station, Tsumori Station, Nishi-Tengachaya Station, Kishinosatotamade Station
Hankai Railway
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Hankai Line: Minamikasumicho Station, Imaike Station, Imafune Station, Matsudacho Station, Kitatengachaya Station, Shotenzaka Station, Tenjinnomori Station, Higashitamade Station, Tsukanishi Station
Education
[eedit | eedit soorce]Public elementary an junior heich schuils are operatit bi the Osaka Ceety Buird o Education. The public heich schuils are operatit bi the Osaka Prefectural Buird o Education.
Elementary schuils[eedit | eedit soorce]
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Junior heich schuils[eedit | eedit soorce]
Heich schuils[eedit | eedit soorce]
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See an aw
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Kamagasaki, Day Laborers' Destrict
- Tobita Shinchi, brothel eistrict
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ 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 (in Japanese)
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