Nishinari西成区

Nishinari-ku. The name ends in 区 (ku), the word for ward.

Nishinari (西成区, Nishinari-ku) is a ward of Osaka, in Osaka Prefecture. The ward is an office of the city, not a government. Population 106,111 (2020 census), area 7.37 km². Borders 6 places.

An administrative ward of a designated city. It has a ward office that handles residence registration and other counter services, but no mayor and no assembly of its own: it is part of the city, and the city's mayor and assembly govern it.

Postal addresses put this ward in the same slot as a Tokyo special ward, which makes the two look equivalent. They are not: you vote for a ward mayor in Tokyo's Kita-ku, and for the city mayor in Osaka's Kita-ku.

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Facts

Japanese name

西成区

Reading

Nishinari-ku

Kind

Ward of a designated city (行政区): an office of the city, not a government

City

Osaka City 大阪市

Prefecture

Osaka 大阪府

Region

Kansai / Kinki 関西・近畿

Population

106,111 (2020 census)

Change since 2015

-5.2% from 111,883

Area

7.37 km²

Density

14,398 people per km²

Households

66,379

Under 15

6.5%

65 and over

40.3%

Foreign residents

7,332 (6.9%)

Code

27122 (団体コード, the municipality code)

Website

www.city.osaka.lg.jp/nishinari

Wikipedia

English / 日本語

Neighbouring wards and municipalities

6 places share a land border with Nishinari, 6 of them wards of the same city. Borders across water are not counted.

• Taishō Ward大正区
• Tennōji Ward天王寺区
• Naniwa Ward浪速区
• Abeno Ward阿倍野区
• Sumiyoshi Ward住吉区
• Suminoe Ward住之江区

Questions about Nishinari

Is Nishinari a city?

Nishinari (西成区) is a ward of Osaka (大阪市), a designated city. It is not a government. The ward office handles counter services such as residence registration, but the ward has no mayor and no assembly of its own: the city's mayor and assembly govern it. Tokyo's 23 special wards are written with the same character, 区, and those are governments.

Where is Nishinari?

Nishinari is inside Osaka (大阪市), in Osaka Prefecture (大阪府), in the Kansai region of Japan. The prefecture is a government; the region is a customary grouping of prefectures and elects nothing.

What is the population of Nishinari?

106,111 at the 2020 census, down 5.2% from 111,883 in 2015. The area is 7.37 km², which is 14,398 people per km². 66,379 households. 40.3% of residents are 65 or older and 6.5% are under 15.

Which municipalities border Nishinari?

Six: Taishō Ward (大正区), Tennōji Ward (天王寺区), Naniwa Ward (浪速区), Abeno Ward (阿倍野区), Sumiyoshi Ward (住吉区), and Suminoe Ward (住之江区). These are the wards and municipalities that share a land border with Nishinari in the boundary data. Borders across water are not counted.

How is Nishinari written in Japanese?

西成区, read Nishinari-ku. The last character, 区 (ku), is the word for ward, and the name is often used without it in English.

How does an address in Nishinari begin?

大阪府大阪市西成区… (Ōsaka-fu, Ōsaka-shi, Nishinari-ku, …). The prefecture name is written first, then the city name, then the ward name. After that are written the named area, the chōme, the block, and the building number.