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alternative words: Hankyu dentetsu, Hankyu tetsudo
keywords: company, osaka, railroad
related topics: Osaka city, Kobe city, Kyoto city, Takarazuka city
related web sites: http://www.hankyu.co.jp
explanation: Railway company serving 3 major cities of Kinki region, i.e. Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe. Founded in 1907, it has developed quickly thanks to an innovative idea of Kobayashi Ichizo, i.e. to build real estate properties along railroads and department stores at terminus. The company owns many bus lines and distribution business too.
Hanshin electric railway
alternative words: Hanshin denki tetsudo, Hanshin dentetsu
keywords: company, osaka, railroad
related topics: Osaka city, Kobe city
related web sites: http://www.hanshin.co.jp
explanation: Railway company serving the highly urbanized zone between Osaka and Kobe cities. Founded in 1899, it owns bus lines and department stores too. Hanshin is also highly implicated in baseball business as the owner of Koshien stadium and a professional baseball team.
Itami airport
alternative words: Osaka airport, Itami international airport, Osaka international airport, Itami
keywords: airport, osaka
related topics: Osaka prefecture, Hyogo prefecture
related web sites: http://www.osaka-airport.co.jp
explanation: Located between Hyogo and Osaka prefectures in a highly urbanized zone and highly frequented, this airport was a center of many court struggles to stop nightly landing until 80s. Since the opening of Kansai airport in 1994, the airport is reserved for internal flights. You can reach there by using a monorail coming from Kadoma city.
Kansai Airport
alternative words: Kanku, Kansai international airport
keywords: airport, osaka
related topics: Osaka prefecture, Nankai electric railway, Itami airport, Kansai region, Osaka bay
related web sites: http://www.kansai-airport.or.jp
explanation: Principal airport of Osaka and its environment. Initial airport of Osaka, Itami being saturated, the government decided to build a new airport. In order to avoid the same mistake as Narita, the airport has been built off the coast of south Osaka on Osaka Bay and opened in 1994. It has one runway and the second is under construction. You can reach there from Osaka's downtown (Naniwa or Tenoji stations) by train or bus (between 1 hour and 30 minutes of trip)
Kansai region
alternative words: Kansai area, Kansai, Kinki region, Kinki area, Kinki
keywords: kyoto, nara, osaka, region
related topics: Kyoto prefecture, Osaka prefecture, Hyogo prefecture, Hakone, Kanto region
related web sites: http://www.senri-i.or.jp/kansai/
explanation: Kansai region is the old political center of Japan. It includes actual Hyogo, Kyoto, Shiga, Osaka, Nara, Mie and Wakayama prefectures. Though the political center of Japan has moved to Tokyo, it still owns 3 cities of more than 1 million inhabitants (Kobe, Osaka and Kyoto) and remains the second Japanese economic and industrial area. Kansai means " west of customs barrier" which was at Mt Hakone, while Kinki means "near the capital" which was Kyoto.
Kinki nippon railway
alternative words: Kinki nippon tetsudo, Kinki nihon tetsudo, Kintetsu
keywords: company, nara, osaka, railroad
related topics: KNT, Osaka city, Nara prefecture, Nagoya city
related web sites: http://www.kintetsu.co.jp
explanation: Owing many lines in Kinki region around Osaka, Nara and Nagoya, Kintetsu is the biggest private railroad company after JR group. It was founded in 1944 and has diversified its activity to different business such as bus lines, real estates, department stores and leisure lands. It owns "Kinki nippon tourist bureau" too.
Nakanoshima island
alternative words: Nakanoshima, Nakano shima, Naka no shima
keywords: district, island, osaka
related topics: Osaka city
related web sites: http://www.ncs.co.jp/nakanoshima/, http://www.mydome.or.jp/nakanoshimalib/
explanation: A tiny island located inside Yodo river in Osaka city and near Osaka castle. Town hall, Osaka university, Bank of Japan and park of Nakanoshima being there, it forms the political and economic center of Osaka. Nakanoshima means "middle island".
Naniwa
alternative words: Naniwa district, Naniwa ward
keywords: district, osaka
related topics: Osaka city
explanation: Ward located in the center of Osaka city around Naniwa station of Nankai railroad. It owns Tsutekaku tower, Osaka baseball stadium and gymnasium. Nippon Bashi district, where electric appliance and computer shops are concentrated, is in the east while along Kizugawa river in the west there are shipyards. By the way, Naniwa is an old name of Osaka.
