Welcome to Osaka |
Osaka Station |
Artwork at Osaka Station |
Detailed area maps are common throughout Osaka |
Osaka Station can get busy |
JR routes in Osaka are different from the Subway routes |
Central Osaka and east JR routes |
JR routes west of Osaka |
In this case, an adult fare to Himeji is 1450 yen |
This is a machine to purchase Japan Rail tickets |
Track 5 and 6 for the Kobe line to Himeji |
Track 7 and 8 for the Kyoto Line from Osaka Station |
JR Kyoto line Osaka-Kyoto time table |
Information sign on the platform at Osaka Station switch from Japanese to English |
On the JR platform at Osaka Station |
The subway is reachable from the side of Osaka Station |
Umeda Station is the subway stop at Osaka Station |
Osaka subway fare table |
Here, the fare from Umeda Station to Tanimachi 4-chome is 230 yen |
Insert money, then select the fare amount found on the fare table |
The subway lines are color coded. Make sure you are going in the right direction. |
Some of the lines run above ground |
View from the Green Line |
Crossing a bridge on the Green Line |
A subway station in Osaka |
On the subway in Osaka |
At your destination, a local map will have the exits numbered |
Follow the numbered signs for the correct exit |
Check the time of the last train back before staying out late |
Look down on the pavement for an orientation compass rose |
Namba Station serves the private railway operator Kintetsu |
Kintetsu railroad network |
Kintetsu railroad network between Osaka and Nara |
No Smoking! |
The metro is a good place to find posters as well as art |
Kobe City Museum exhibition from the Museuminsel, Berlin |
Jurassic Dinosaurs |
Full Metal Angels |
The Silk Road at Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art |
Not a clue about this one... |
...or this one |
Entrance to the Metro from Namba Station |
In the underground connecting Namba Station with the Yotsubashi (Dark Blue) line is an art gallery |
The art displayed are all reproductions from the Art Insitutue of Chicago |
One of the larger pieces |
Now that's a cool gadget |
Namba Station on the Yotsubashi (Dark Blue) Line |
Namba Station on the Yotsubashi (Dark Blue) Line |
Shinkansen - the Japanese high speed bullet trains |
Shin-Osaka, the Shinkansen depart from a station north of the main railway station |
Shinkansen |
Shinkansen |
Nozomi Shinkansen to Hakata |
Shinkansen platform, Shin-Osaka |
Shin-Osaka |
Shin-Osaka |
On board the Shinkansen |
West Japan Railway Shinkansen |
West Japan Railway Shinkansen |
West Japan Railway Shinkansen |
Shinkansen railway yard |
Underground Osaka - Umeda Underground Street Map |
Underground Osaka - Garden City near the Osaka Hilton |