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Also known as Nanba

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.

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Namba
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Chōme
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Nankai Namba Station & Takashimaya Osaka Department Store
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Japan Osaka Prefecture#Japan
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Prefecture
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Ward
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Osaka
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Osaka
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Chūō and Naniwa

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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.

==Railway stations== Namba Station ●Nankai Electric Railway ●Nankai Line ●Koya Line Osaka Metro ●Midōsuji Line (M20) ●Yotsubashi Line (Y15) ●Sennichimae Line (S16) JR Namba Station ●JR West ●Kansai Main Line (Yamatoji Line) Ōsaka Namba Station ●Kintetsu Namba Line (through service to the Nara Line) ●Hanshin Railway ●Hanshin Namba Line

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