Naniwa-ku, Osaka

thumb|Tsūtenkaku thumb|upright=0.6|Tsūtenkaku, south side

ward of Osaka City

Namba (, ) is a district in Chūō and Naniwa wards of Osaka, Japan. It is regarded as the center of Osaka's Minami (:ja:ミナミ, "South") region. Its name came from a variation of Naniwa, the former name of Osaka. Namba hosts some of the city's main south-central railway terminals, as JR, Kintetsu, Nankai, Hanshin, and three Osaka Metro subway lines all have stations within this region.

Japanese animation studio

Human rights museum in South Osaka city