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.

Location o Nishinari-ku in Osaka Ceety

Creeme an safety

Twa designatit yakuza groups, the Sakaume-gumi an the Azuma-gumi, are based in Nishinari.

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

• 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

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

Education

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

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

Junior heich schuils

• Imamiya Junior Heich Schuil
• Tsurumibashi Junior Heich Schuil
• Tengachaya Junior Heich Schuil
• Seinan Junior Heich Schuil
• Bainan Junior Heich Schuil
• Tamade Junior Heich Schuil

Heich schuils

• Imamiya Technical Heich Schuil
• Nishinari Heich Schuil

See an aw

• Kamagasaki, Day Laborers' Destrict
• Tobita Shinchi, brothel eistrict

References

Freemit airtins

• Offeecial wabsteid o Nishinari (in Inglis)