Ura-Namba

Born in 2010 with a handful of independent venues: today it has about a hundred.

Narrow alleys east of Namba Station, between Sennichimae street to the north and Nansan street to the south; to the east they reach Kuromon Market, to the west roughly as far as the Takashimaya department store. Once an area of warehouses and cabaret signs, today it has standing bars (tachinomi, where you drink without sitting down) and venues with a strong character, one block from the main streets.

The name and identity of the area were born in 2010, when the owners of the independent venues in the area (then a former warehouse neighbourhood near the street of tools, Dōgu-suji) decided to promote it together, to the point of being able to tell a taxi driver ‘Ura-Namba, please’. From a handful of venues at the start, the area has grown to about a hundred of them, turning from a place seen as shady into one of the most popular nightlife neighbourhoods in Osaka.

ℹ️ An area of public alleys with no opening hours of its own: it comes alive in the evening, with venues opening in the late afternoon or evening. Access from Nihonbashi Station (Sennichimae and Sakaisuji lines) or Namba Station (Nankai). No car park.

🚉 Namba · 5 min walk

Sources: travel.rakuten.co.jp

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