Umeda

Umeda (Japanese梅田) is a commercial and business district with many hotels and office buildings in the urban district of Kita Osaka, Japan. Umeda is synonymous with the cities of Osaka with many high-rise buildings, including 40 skyscrapers. In Umeda is located in Osaka and Umeda stations with trains to the northern hub of Osaka and the biggest shopping centers in Osaka ( Osaka Diamor and the department stores of Daimaru, Hankyu Hanshin and ).

The district Umeda in the narrower sense, that is, the zone, which is also called the address of Umeda, Osaka train station only covers the southeast, areas and is divided into 3 Chome. In a broader sense also the surrounding neighborhoods are counted to Umeda.

Name

The name of the district translates to " ume field ". However Originally, the name derives from " backfill field " (埋 田), because the district was originally an area intensively agriculturally used. With construction of the train network in the 1870s the entire area was filled in and the county grew rapidly. There could never be fully understood and generally accepted, which is why the kanji changed, and thus led to the shift in meaning.

Traffic

Train services

In Umeda the route networks of various governmental and private train companies meet. Umstiege are uncomplicated usually possible. Specifically, there are train stations

  • JR Nishi- Nihon Osaka ( up to 600,000 passengers per day )
  • Kitashinchi
  • Umeda (more than 500,000 passengers per day )
  • Umeda
  • Umeda
  • Nishi- Umeda
  • Higashi- Umeda

Every day, at more than 2 million passengers at these stations. Thus Umeda is one of the busiest junctions in the Japanese trains.

Bus

The local train companies offer various bus from Umeda in both the passenger and the travel distance transport. Before and in the important railway stations therefore find bus stations.

Hotels

The importance Umeda as a transportation hub is reflected in the accumulation of known hotels:

  • ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Osaka
  • Hilton Hotel
  • Hotel Granvia ( in the station of JR West)
  • New Hankyu Hotel ( in the station of Hankyu )
  • Ritz Carlton Osaka
  • Westin Osaka

Attractions

In addition to numerous attractions grown to objects, such as various takoyaki stalls, theaters, elevated roads and high routes in the middle of the street canyons, there are also larger, specially planned as an attraction systems:

  • HEP Five
  • Umeda Sky Building
  • Umeda underground
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