Minami is the Japanese name for south and as such, the Minami ward is located in the south part of Osaka.
Minami is where all the locals go to party especially in the entertainment area around Dotonbori Bridge and the hip “Amerikamura” American Village.
Minami means the South and is basically South Osaka and is home to Namba Station and the huge entertainment and shopping districts.
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The movie Bladerunner, where east meets west or somewhere from out of space would be the only way you could describe this amazing place known as Amerika-Mura or Amernura the American Village. As the name may suggest is one of Osaka’s most fascinating, electric and more unusual places. This area is a whole suburb which is at the cutting edge of Japanese youth culture.
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Sometimes known as Nihonbashi or Nipponbashi, Den Den Town, like Tokyo’s Akihabara, is Osaka’s electrical district with nearly all the area from Nansan Dori Street to Nihombashi being filled with electrical store after electrical store. There are hundreds of shops selling just about everything imaginable electronic. You can buy just about anything from small battery operated toys to the latest computerised products.
Dotonbori is home to Osaka’s canal banked entertainment district and has one of the most electric and exciting atmospheres found anywhere in Japan, especially at night when the neon comes alive to the sounds and smells of this great precinct which is jammed packed with bars, cafes, restaurants and fashion stores.
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The National Bunraku Theatre is an arts centre which duty is to preserve, develop and pass on traditional arts forms from the Osaka – Kyoto area called the Kamigata. The main art form the centre focuses on is the art of Ningyo Joruri Buraku which is a puppet drama.
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Also known as Shinsaibashi-suji, Shinsaibashi is a shoppers paradise, there are just so many shops all leading off one huge long undercover strip mall stretching nearly a mile, packed with hundreds of stores selling everything from the chic designer fashion from Europe or traditional kimono tailors charging thousands of yen to stores selling 200 Yen T-Shirts.
Like many of the towers in Japan Osaka’s Tsutenkaku Tower is loosely based on the Eifel Tower. The Tsutenkaku or Path Reaching Heaven is one of the most recognisable of the Osaka, owned by the Tsutenkaku Kanko Co the tower lights up the skies above the Shinsekai entertainment district of the Naniwa Ward.
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There are often plenty of signs to help you pick the right toilet.