(place) by sekicho Sat Sep 14 2002 at 1:04:16

大阪

Ôsaka is both a prefecture and a city within that prefecture, but the entire prefecture is really one large, unbroken urban area. The prefectural population is 8.6 million: the city proper is 2.5 million. Osaka City is smaller than Yokohama City, but Osaka Prefecture is much more populous than Kanagawa Prefecture, so the title of Japan's Second Largest City is sort of up in the air, depending on how you like to define "city."

The cities in Osaka Prefecture are:

  1. Osaka 2,479,000
  2. Sakai 791,000
  3. Higashi Osaka 497,000
  4. Hirakata 399,000
  5. Toyonaka 390,000
  6. Takatsuki 360,000
  7. Suita 334,000
  8. Yao 269,000
  9. Neyagawa 256,000
  10. Ibaraki 254,000
  11. Kishiwada 196,000
  12. Kazumi 164,000
  13. Tsukaguchi 153,000
  14. Kadoma 138,000
  15. Matsubara 133,000
  16. Daito 127,000
  17. Tondabayashi 123,000
  18. Minoh 123,000
  19. Kawachi Nagano 120,000
  20. Habikino 118,000
  21. Ikeda 101,000
  22. Izumisano 94,000
  23. Settsu 85,000
  24. Kaizuka 85,000
  25. Kashiwara 79,000
  26. Katano 75,000
  27. Izumiotsu 71,000
  28. Fujiidera 66,000
  29. Takaishi 64,000
  30. Sennan 62,000
  31. Hannan 58,000
  32. Osaka Sayama 56,000
  33. Shijonawate 54,000
Here are the 24 区 (ku) of Osaka City, with major train stations:

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