Osaka City Air Terminal (OCAT) is a multi-purpose commercial complex in Minatomachi, Naniwa-ku

Naniwa-ku, Osaka

is one of 24 wards of Osaka City, Japan. It has an area of 4.37 km², and a population of 51,567.- General information :Largely a residential area itself, Naniwa-ku is adjacent to and has in recent years blurred into the Namba district, which is south Osaka City's transport hub and centre of...

, Osaka

Osaka

is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...

 housing South Osaka's inter-city bus

Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...

 terminal and coach ferry services to Kansai International Airport

Kansai International Airport

is an international airport located on an artificial island in the middle of Osaka Bay, southwest of Ōsaka Station, located within three municipalities, including Izumisano , Sennan , and Tajiri , in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The airport is off the Honshu shore. The airport serves as an...

, JR Namba station

JR Namba Station

is a train station in Namba, Naniwa Ward, Osaka, Japan, adjacent to Namba Station and Osaka Namba Station operated by the West Japan Railway Company....

 and six floors of shops, restaurants, travel agencies and tourist offices. OCAT is also the venue for frequent musical performances and its outdoor Ponte Square area is the meeting place and practice area for Osaka's youthful street dance

Street dance

Street dance, more formally known as vernacular dance, is an umbrella term used to describe dance styles that evolved outside of dance studios in any available open space such as streets, dance parties, block parties, parks, school yards, raves, and nightclubs, etc...

 community. Urban dance competitions are held there every August.

Despite the name of the complex, OCAT is not actually an air terminal itself but part of an extended, inter-connected underground transport hub to Kansai International Airport. Namba Station

Namba Station

-Layout:Midōsuji Line*an island platform and a side platform with 2 tracksSennichimae Line*an island platform with 2 tracksYotsubashi Line*an island platform with 2 tracks-Adjacent stations:-Surroundings:*Takashimaya*Namba City...

, the terminal for south Osaka City bound train services (including Kansai International) is within 15 minutes walking distance from OCAT via the Namba Walk - an underground passageway lined with shops, bars and restaurants.

Floors

• Roof: Roof Garden (closed from December to March)
• 6th floor: Office
• 5th floor: Namba Municipal Tax Office, Bookstore (BOOK RANKING Namba OCAT)
• 4th floor: Osaka Lifelong Learning Center Namba, Namba Municipal Tax Office, Airline offices, Tourist information, Fortune
• 3rd floor: Liquor and Imported foods (La Cave de YaMa Ya), General stores, Relaxation
• 2nd floor: Bus terminal, Table tennis room, UNICEF office
• 1st floor: Entrance, Fashion Mall, Post Office, Daiso
  Daiso
  is the largest franchise of 100-yen shops in Japan owned by . Daiso has a range of over 100,000 goods, of which over 40 percent are imported goods, many of them from China. Many of these are own-brand goods....
  
  
• 1st basement: JR Namba Station
  JR Namba Station
  is a train station in Namba, Naniwa Ward, Osaka, Japan, adjacent to Namba Station and Osaka Namba Station operated by the West Japan Railway Company....
  
  , Restaurants, Pharmacy, Convenience store, passage to Minatomachi River Place, passage to Namba Walk
• 3rd basement: Seijukai Medical Center

Bus terminal

Osaka Airport Transport Co., Ltd., Kansai Airport Transportation Enterprise Co., Ltd., Kintetsu Bus Co., Ltd., Nankai Bus Co., Ltd., West JR Bus Company, JR Bus Kanto Co., Ltd., JR Tokai Bus Company, Chugoku JR Bus Company, JR Shikoku Bus Company, Hankyu Bus Co., Ltd., Honshi Kaikyo Bus Co., Ltd., Nihon Kotsu Co., Ltd. (Osaka), Nihon Kotsu Co., Ltd. (Tottori), etc.

• Gates 1, 2, 3
  • Sightseeing buses, Tour buses
• Gate 4
  • Airport limousine for Osaka International Airport
    Osaka International Airport
    or Osaka-Itami International Airport is the primary domestic airport for the Kansai region of Japan, including the major cities of Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe. It is classified as a first class airport....
    
    
  • Intercity buses (for Tokyo, Gotemba, Fujiyoshida, Wakasa-Takahama, Obama, Tokushima, Kagoshima, etc.)
• Gate 5
  • Airport limousine for Kansai International Airport
    Kansai International Airport
    is an international airport located on an artificial island in the middle of Osaka Bay, southwest of Ōsaka Station, located within three municipalities, including Izumisano , Sennan , and Tajiri , in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The airport is off the Honshu shore. The airport serves as an...
    
    
  • Intercity buses (for Yokohama, Tokyo, Takayama, Hiroshima, Kure, Kasaoka, Ibara, Kannabe, Tokushima, Kochi, etc.)
• Gate 6
  • Intercity buses (for Fujisawa, Kamakura, Ofuna, Tachikawa, Akihabara, Narita, Choshi, Kashiwazaki, Nagaoka, Higashi-Sanjo, Nagano, Yudanaka, Hiroshima, Shikoku, Takeo Onsen, Sasebo, Huis Ten Bosch, etc.)
• Gate 7
  • Intercity buses (for Sendai, Yamagata, Fukushima, Iwaki, Tsukuba, Mito, Utsunomiya, Kawagoe, Kumagaya, Tottori, Yonago, Okayama, Fukuyama, Onomichi, Hofu, Sukumo, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, etc.)
• Gate 8
  • Intercity buses (for Maizuru, Shirahama, Minabe, Awaji, Sumoto, Naruto, Tokushima, etc.)
• Gate 9
  • for getting off
  • Intercity bus departing for Higashi-Maizuru at 8:30 p.m.
• Gate 10
  • Only for getting off

External links

• OCAT Official site

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