osaka

     

Osaka (大阪市, Ōsaka-shi) listen (help·info) is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshū.

Trivia about osaka

  • Kobe, Kyoto & this city are the centers of the Keihanshin industrial zone
  • The Hanshin Expressway, a major road between Kobe & this port city, collapsed in a 1995 earthquake
  • Of Kawasaki, Osaka or Yamato, the one that's not a suburb of Tokyo
  • With over 64 million in attendance, this Japanese city's 1970 World's Fair was the largest ever held
  • Eel is a culinary specialty of this third-largest Japanese city, site of the 1970 World's Fair
  • Because of its many canals & rivers, this city is known as the "Venice of Japan"
  • This Japanese city hosted the World's Fair in 1970
  • Considered the home of Japanese drama, especially puppet theater, it's Japan's third largest city