🇯🇵 Japan
Osaka
Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the second biggest prefectural city, third-most populous city proper in Japan, following the special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With an estimated population of 2.8 million as of October 1, 2025 and a population density of about 12,505 people per square kilometer, it is the largest component of the Keihanshin metropolitan area, the second-largest metropolitan area in Japan and the 10th-largest urban area in the world with more than 19 million inhabitants.
- Country
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Elevation
- 0 m
- Population
- 2,753,862
- Time zone
- Asia/Tokyo
- Coordinates
- 34.69, 135.50
How far Osaka is from other cities in Japan
- Sakai13 km✈ 46 min · 🚗 13 min
- Nara28 km✈ 47 min · 🚗 28 min
- Kobe29 km✈ 47 min · 🚗 29 min
- Kioto43 km✈ 48 min · 🚗 43 min
- Nagoya139 km✈ 55 min · 🚗 2 h 19 min
- Hamamatsu204 km✈ 60 min · 🚗 3 h 24 min
- Kanazawa235 km✈ 1 h 2 min · 🚗 3 h 55 min
- Hiroshima281 km✈ 1 h 6 min · 🚗 4 h 41 min
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