Skip to content
Mixroutes
Ward of Osaka, Japan

Ikuno-ku, Osaka

Ikuno-ku (生野区) is one of the 24 wards residing in the prefecture of Osaka, Japan.

Ikuno-ku, Osaka
Ikuno-ku, Osaka · Saigen Jiro (CC0)
The place

Ikuno-ku (生野区) is one of the 24 wards residing in the prefecture of Osaka, Japan.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ikuno-ku, Osaka

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Abeno Harukas

    Abeno Harukas is a multi-purpose commercial facility in Abenosuji Itchome, Abeno-ku, Osaka, Japan. It consists of the New Annex, Eastern Annex and a supertall skyscraper, Abeno Harukas.

    2.4 km · skyscraper in Osaka · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Shitennō-ji Temple

    Shitennō-ji is a Buddhist temple in Ōsaka, Japan. It is also known as Arahaka-ji, Nanba-ji/Naniwa-daiji, or Mitsu-ji 御津寺.

    2.1 km · Built in 593 A.D., this famous Buddhist temple features a five-story pagoda, statues and turtle ponds · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tsūtenkaku

    Tsūtenkaku is a tower and landmark of Osaka, Japan, and advertises the Hitachi company.

    3.1 km · observation tower · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Abenobashi Terminal Building

    Abeno Harukas is a multi-purpose commercial facility in Abenosuji Itchome, Abeno-ku, Osaka, Japan. It consists of the New Annex, Eastern Annex and a supertall skyscraper, Abeno Harukas.

    2.5 km · station building in Osaka, Japan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Tennōji Zoo

    Tennōji Zoo is a 11-hectare zoo located at Tennōji Park in Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan, opened on January 1, 1915. It is the third zoo to be built in Japan and is located southwest of the Shitennō-ji temple, the first Buddhist temple in Japan.

    2.9 km · zoo · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    National Bunraku Theatre

    The National Bunraku Theatre is a complex consisting of two halls and an exhibition room, located in the Nipponbashi district in Osaka, Japan. The complex was opened in 1984 as the fourth national theatre of the country, to become the headquarters of bunraku.

    3.3 km · theater · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Tennōji Park

    The Tennōji Park is a park with botanical garden at 1–108, Chausuyama-cho, Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan.

    2.7 km · Park in Osaka, Japan · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts

    The Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts is a museum located in Tennōji Park, Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan. The museum focuses on Japanese and east Asian art.

    2.7 km · Municipal museum in Osaka City · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Osaka Stadium

    Osaka Stadium, owned by Osaka Stadium Corporation, was a stadium in Naniwa-ku, Osaka, Japan. It opened in 1950, with a capacity of 32,000 people.

    3.6 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Nipponbashi

    Nipponbashi m.ba.ɕi],) is a shopping district of Naniwa Ward, Osaka, Japan. The area is centered along Sakaisuji Avenue, extending from the Ebisu-chō Interchange of the Hanshin Expressway in the south, to Nansan-dōri in the north.

    3.5 km · shopping district in Osaka, Japan · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Ikuno-ku, Osaka

Airports
Osaka Itami (ITM), 17 km · Kobe (UKB), 29 km · Kansai (KIX), 37 km
Stations
Tennōji Station, 2.4 km · Imazato Station, 1.8 km · Shuntokumichi Station, 3 km · Shin-Imamiya Station, 3.5 km · Shitennōji-mae Yūhigaoka Station, 2.4 km
  • Tokushima → Ikuno-ku, Osaka
    111 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · ¥1,660–2,270
    GuideToday
  • Tokoname → Ikuno-ku, Osaka
    121 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · ¥1,970–2,690
    GuideToday
  • Takamatsu → Ikuno-ku, Osaka
    142 km · quickest by road, 4h 11m · ¥2,190–2,990
    GuideToday
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ikuno-ku, Osaka

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ikuno-ku, Osaka. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inOsaka International Ferry Terminal is in Nankō (南港) in the Osaka Bay Area.
  • Get inThe PanStar Line operates a ferry between Osaka and Busan.
  • Get inThe ferry leaves Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, at 15:10 from both Osaka and Busan and arrives the following day at 10:00.
  • Get inThe ferry holds live musical performances, magic shows, and other entertainment on the run.
  • Get inYou can take your car on the ferry, but there are documentation requirements.

From Wikivoyage: Osaka, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    875 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,224 km
  3. 03
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,504 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,593 km
  5. 05
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,762 km

If you know how people move in Ikuno-ku, Osaka – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Ikuno-ku, Osaka

Ikuno-ku, Osaka is 4 km from Higashiosaka, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

The place page for Ikuno-ku, OsakaAll the notesEvery note on Japan