is one of 24 wards of

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. It has an area of 8.88 km², and a population of 60,085. It houses Osaka's financial district, as well as the

Osaka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Osaka Prefecture has a population of 8,778,035 () and has a geographic area of . Osaka Prefecture borders Hyōgo Prefecture to the northwest, Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Nara ...

offices and principal shopping and tourist areas.

Consulates

Various consulates are found in Chūō-ku. The Consulate-General of South Korea has its own building. Three consulates, Consulate-General of Australia, the Consulate-General of the Netherlands, and the Consulate-General of the Philippines, occupy the twenty-ninth, thirty-third, and twenty-fourth floors, respectively, of the Twin21 MID Tower. The Consulate-General of Canada is on the twelfth floor of the Daisan Shoho Building in Chūō-ku. The Consulate-General of France is on the tenth floor of the Crystal Tower. The Consulate-General of India is on the tenth floor of the Semba I.S. Building. The Consulate-General of Indonesia is on the first floor of the Koike Bldg. The Consulate-General of Singapore is on the fourteenth floor of the Osaka Kokusai Building. The Consulate-General of Thailand is in the first, fourth, and fifth floors of the Bangkok Bank Building. The Consulate-General of the United Kingdom is on the nineteenth floor of the Seiko Osaka Building. The Consulate-General of Vietnam is on the tenth floor of the Estate Bakuro-machi Building.

Facilities

Osaka Prefecture

*Osaka Prefectural Government *Osaka Prefectural Police Head Station **Minami Police Station **Higashi Police Station * Osaka Contemporary Art Center

Mass media

;Broadcasting stations *

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Osaka Broadcasting Station - Otemae *

Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation JOIX-DTV (channel 10), branded as , is the Kansai region flagship station of the Nippon News Network and the Nippon Television Network System, owned by the , itself a subsidiary of Yomiuri Chukyo FS Broadcasting Holdings. FYCS is partially ...

- Shiromi Nichome (Osaka Business Park) *

TV Osaka JOBH-DTV (channel 7), branded as , is a Japanese television station serving as the affiliate of the TX Network for the Osaka prefecture. Owned-and-operated by , the station's headquarters and studios are in the Chūō-ku, Osaka, Chūō-ku ward of ...

- Otemae ;Newspapers *

Nihon Keizai Shimbun ''The Nikkei'', also known as , is the flagship publication of Nikkei, Inc. (based in Tokyo) and the world's largest financial newspaper, with a daily circulation exceeding 1.73 million copies. The Nikkei 225, a stock market index for the Tokyo ...

- Otemae

Economy

Company headquarters

Capcom is a Japanese video game company. It has created a number of critically acclaimed and List of best-selling video game franchises, multi-million-selling game franchises, with its most commercially successful being ''Resident Evil'', ''Monster ...

- UchihiranomachiLocations
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. Retrieved on August 12, 2011. "3-1-3 Uchihirano-machi, Chuo-ku, Osaka 540-0037, Japan" * Daimaru *

Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma is a Japanese multinational pharmaceutical company. The company is focused on oncology, psychiatry, neurology, women's health issues, urological diseases among other areas. Its headquarters are located in Chuo-ku, Osaka. History The original ...

- Dojomachi *Iwatani Corporation - Hommachi * JEX Co., Ltd. - Jekusu Kabushiki-gaisha * Kansai Paint - Imabashi *Kansai Urban Banking Corporation * Keihan Electric Railway Co., Ltd. - Otemae *Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. - Dojomachi * Mandom Corporation - Junikencho * Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation - Kitahama *Morishita Jintan Co., Ltd. - Morinomiya *

Nankai Electric Railway is a private railway in Japan, founded in 1884. The name ''Nankai'' (which means "South Sea") comes from the company's routes along the Nankaidō, the old highway that ran south from the old capital, Kyoto, along the sea coast. Nankai predate ...

Co., Ltd. *

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- Imabashi * Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corporation (NTT West) - Bamba * Ono Pharmaceutical - Kyutaro-machi * Osaka Gas Co., Ltd. - Hiranomachi * Osaka Exchange Inc. - Kitahama *

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- Bingomachi * Sakura Color Products Corporation - Morinomiya * Shionogi - Dojomachi * Sumitomo Chemical - Kitahama * Sumitomo Life Insurance Company - Shiromi (Osaka Business Park) *

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- Dojomachi *

Takenaka Corporation is one of five major general contractors in Japan. Takenaka provides architectural, engineering, and construction services and has its headquarters located in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture. Takenaka has eight domestic offices in Japan with ...

- Hommachi * Teijin - Hommachi * Unitika - Kyutaro-machi Sumitomo Trust and Banking was headquartered in Kitahama prior to its merger to form Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank (now headquartered in Tokyo). Daiwa Bank and were headquartered in Chuo-ku prior to their merger to form

Branch offices

Fuji Fire and Marine Insurance has its Osaka offices in the ward.

Offices of foreign companies

Air China Air China, officially Air China Limited, ( zh, s=中国国际航空公司, labels=no, ''Zhōngguó guójì hángkōng gōngsī'') is a major Chinese airline and the flag carrier of the People's Republic of China. It is headquartered in Shunyi ...

has an office on the 1st floor of the Uchihonmachi Green Building in Chūō-ku.

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operates a sales office on the 18th Floor of the Epson Osaka Building in Chūō-ku.

Landmarks

* Amerikamura *

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* National Bunraku Theater * Osaka Business Park *

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Shinsaibashi is a district in the Chūō-ku ward of Osaka, Japan and the city's main shopping area. At its center is , a covered shopping street, that is north of Dōtonbori and Sōemonchō, and parallel and east of Mido-suji street. Associated with Shi ...

Railway stations

;

West Japan Railway Company , also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu. It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, ...

(JR West) :

Osaka Loop Line The is a railway Circle route, loop line in Japan operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West). It encircles central Osaka. Part of a second, outer loop line, the Osaka Higashi Line, from Hanaten Station, Hanaten to Kyuhoji Station, Kyuh ...

: Morinomiya Station - Osakajo-koen Station ; Keihan Electric Railway : Keihan Line: Yodoyabashi Station - Kitahama Station - Temmabashi Station ;

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: Namba Line: Osaka Namba Station - Kintetsu Nippombashi Station ;

Hanshin Electric Railway is a Japanese private railway company owned by Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group that links Osaka and Kobe. It also owns the Hanshin Tigers baseball team. The first character for Kobe (神戸) and the second character for Osaka (大阪) combine to form ...

: Hanshin Namba Line: Osaka Namba Station ;

Nankai Main Line The is one of the two main railway lines of Japanese private railway company Nankai Electric Railway, together with Nankai Kōya Line, Kōya Line. The route is from Namba Station in south downtown of Osaka to Wakayamashi Station in Wakayama, Wa ...

: Namba Station ; Osaka Metro : Midosuji Line: Yodoyabashi Station - Hommachi Station - Shinsaibashi Station - Namba Station : Tanimachi Line: Temmabashi Station - Tanimachi Yonchome Station - Tanimachi Rokuchome Station : Chuo Line: Hommachi Station - Sakaisuji-Hommachi Station - Tanimachi Yonchome Station - Morinomiya Station :

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: Namba Station - Nippombashi Station :

Sakaisuji Line The is an underground rapid transit line in Osaka, Japan, operated by Osaka Metro. Its official name is , and in Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (Japan), MLIT publications, it is written as . The Sakaisuji Line is uniq ...

: Kitahama Station - Nagahoribashi Station : Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line: Shinsaibashi Station - Matsuyamachi Station - Nagahoribashi Station - Tanimachi Rokuchome Station - (Tamatsukuri Station, Tennoji-ku) - Morinomiya Station - Osaka Business Park Station

Education

University and Colleges

* Osaka Dental University Temmabashi Campus *

Osaka University of Economics , is a private university located in Higashiyodogawa-ku, Osaka, Japan. History It was founded in 1932 as Naniwa Higher Commercial School (浪華高等商業学校). During World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 Se ...

Kitahama Campus * Osaka Jogakuin Junior College * Osaka Jogakuin University * Hannan University Yodoyabashi Satellite Campus

Secondary Education

; Private schools * Osaka Jogakuin Junior and Senior High School in

Notable people from Chūō-ku, Osaka

* Akinobu Okada, Japanese professional baseball player and manager * Isuzu Yamada, Japanese stage and screen actress * Koji Imada, Japanese musician, comedian and TV presenter * Kosuke Gomi, Japanese novelist * Kyū Sazanka, Japanese actor *

Naomi Osaka is a Japanese professional tennis player. She has been ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA for 25 weeks, the first Asian player to hold the ...

, Japanese tennis player *

Nakamura Ganjirō II was a Japanese kabuki and film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1941 and 1980, directed by notable filmmakers such as Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Akira Kurosawa, and Mikio Naruse. Lineage Born into a renowned Kabuki acting ...

, Japanese kabuki and film actor * Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese professional sumo wrestler * Sanjugo Naoki, Japanese novelist * Tokuzō Tanaka, Japanese film director * Toyoko Yamasaki, Japanese novelist * Yoko Akino, Japanese actress * Yusuke Hagihara, Japanese astronomer

References

External links

*
Chuo Ward Official Web Site OSAKA CITY

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