 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 |