It’s not hard to find a frazzled foreigner in Japan. Just head to a ticket vending machine in any busy train station.

Osaka Station is a perfect location as a base for sightseeing around Osaka, shopping and heading to Kyoto and Nara. Osaka Station is not only JR Osaka Station, but it is also listed as Umeda Station ...

OSAKA, Japan >> A huge artwork draws visitors to JR Osaka Station, on the walk northward from the ticket gate to the west exit. The Fountain Boy, a black concrete sphere about 9 feet in diameter and ...

On the final day of Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, I found myself retracing steps I had hoped to take 55 years earlier. My first ...

As a stop for the JR Shinkansen, Shin-Osaka Station makes a great Kansai hub for visiting major cities around Japan like Kyoto, Kobe, Nagoya, or Tokyo. This means it experiences a lot of foot-traffic, ...

OSAKA--Aya Koishikawa is on hand at Hankyu Corp.’s Osaka Umeda Station here to answer questions from passengers about train schedules. No matter what the query is, whether it be if a particular train ...

OSAKA--The site of a former rail freight terminal has the distinction of being the “last prime zone” to be developed in this bustling western Japan city. It occupies a prestigious location northwest ...

A ticket gate is seen at Hanshin Electric Railway's Umeda Station in the city of Osaka on May 6, 2019. (Mainichi/Naoto Ishikawa) OSAKA -- Hankyu Corp. and Hanshin Electric Railway Co. announced on ...

Tesla has built another Powerpack system in record time, this time at Osaka train station in Japan, where it will be used as emergency backup and to reduce peak energy demand. According to the company ...

OSAKA -- A 30-year-old man indicted on a charge of robbery resulting in injury escaped from a police station in the city of Tondabayashi in southern Osaka Prefecture on Aug. 12 following an interview ...

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