Suminoe-ku, Osaka

Suminoe-ku (住之江区) is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan, stretching along the south-west border of the city. It borders the wards of Minato-ku, Taisho-ku and Nishinari-ku to the north, and Sumiyoshi-ku to the east. It is the largest land area of all wards in Osaka, and includes about half of the Osaka Bay harbor area.

Suminoe-ku is connected to the region by three municipal subway lines (the Yotsubashi Line, the Chuo Line, and the Nankō Port Town Line), as well as two rail lines (Nankai Main Line and Hankai Line) and three expressways. The ward is also home to the Osaka international ferry terminal with services to Shikoku and Kyushu, as well as international destinations Shanghai, China, and Busan, South Korea.^[1]^[2]

A largely pre-war neighborhood, with a large concentration of galleries, artist workshops, studios, urban farms, and other creative facilities among factories and old wood-frame homes

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Chidori Bunka – a community arts and crafts complex, built inside a collection of old interconnected buildings

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Creative Center Osaka – a large dockside arts and performance complex

Morimura@Museum – interactive arts museum by , a well-known contemporary Japanese artist

Yasumasa Morimura

The Branch Art Lab – ecological art gallery with urban garden and residency program

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a South Korean school^[8]

Kongo Gakuen

South Osaka Korean Elementary School (), a North Korean school^[9]

南大阪朝鮮初級学校

International schools:

(born 1982) – Female J-pop singer-songwriter, illustrator and pianist on avex.

Ai Otsuka

(born 1990) – Japanese footballer.

Yusuke Maruhashi

(born 1991) – basketball player.

Soichiro Fujitaka

(in English)