Umeda

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Panorama of the Umeda skyscraper

Umeda ( Japanese 梅田 ) is a commercial and business district with many hotels and office buildings in the Kita district of Osaka , Japan . Umeda is synonymous with the cityscape of Osaka with many high-rise buildings, including 40 skyscrapers. Umeda is the Osaka and Umeda train station, Osaka’s northern train hub and Osaka's largest shopping centers (Diamor Osaka and the Daimaru, Hankyū and Hanshin department stores).

The Umeda district in the narrower sense, i.e. H. the zone, which is also called the address after Umeda, only includes the Osaka station in the south-east adjoining areas and is divided into 3 chōme . In a broader sense, Umeda also includes the surrounding districts.

Surname

The name of the district translates to " Ume field". Originally, the name derives from "heaped up field" ( 埋 田 ), as the district was originally an area used intensively for agriculture. When the train network was built in the 1870s, the entire area was filled in and the district grew rapidly. It could never be conclusively and generally recognized why the Kanji have changed and thus led to a shift in meaning.

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Train traffic

The North Gate of Umeda Station
Umeda and Nakanoshima

The route networks of various state and private train companies meet in a building complex called “Umeda Station”. Changes are usually straightforward. In detail there are train stations from

Over 2 million passengers pass through these stations every day. Umeda is thus one of the busiest hubs in Japanese train traffic.

Bus transport

The local train companies offer various bus connections from Umeda for both local and long-distance travel. There are therefore bus stations in front of and in the important train stations.

Hotels

The importance of Umeda as a transport hub is reflected in the accumulation of well-known hotels:

Attractions

In addition to a large number of objects that have grown into attractions, such as B. various Takoyaki stands, theaters or elevated streets and elevated roads in the middle of the urban canyons, there are also larger, specially planned attractions:

  • HEP Five: Shopping center with a red ferris wheel on the roof. In the foyer, two life-size, pink-painted sperm whale replicas (a mother with a calf) hang from the ceiling.
  • Umeda Sky Building: This arch-shaped twin high-rise is one of the tallest buildings in Umeda and offers a panoramic view that extends far into the surrounding area.
  • Umeda Underground: Typically for large Japanese cities, there are also extensive and fully air-conditioned passages built underground in Umeda with shops and entrances to the train stations and important buildings (sometimes on several levels), but here supplemented with aspects such as planting or an underground river various bridges to cross.

  • HEP Five in Umeda

  • Umeda Sky Building in Shin-Umeda City in the neighboring district of Ōyodo-Naka

  • Underground "river" in Umeda Underground B2F

Web links

Commons : Umeda  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 34 ° 42 ′  N , 135 ° 30 ′  E