Abeno-ku, Osaka

Abeno-ku in Osaka

Abeno-ku (阿倍野区) is ane o 24 wairds o Osaka, Japan. It is locatit in soothren Osaka ceety an haes a population o ower 107,000. In the northren pairt o Abeno, Abenobashi, thare is the Kintetsu Minami-Osaka Line which terminates at Abenobashi Station, the Midōsuji Line an Tanimachi Line o the Osaka Municipal Subway at Tennoji Station, an the Hankai Tramway's Uemachi Line which terminates at Tennoji-eki-mae Station. The Abenobashi aurie o Abeno is a commercial aurie whaur depairtment stores an movie theatres are locatit. Abeno is a hame for Sharp Corporation (Nagaike-cho).

History

Sharp heidquairters biggin in Abeno waird

When Osaka ceety increased its nummer o wairds frae 15 tae 22 on 1 Aprile 1943, Sumiyoshi waird wis dividit intae three "new" wairds, ane o which wis Abeno, the ithers being Higashi-Sumiyoshi waird an Sumiyoshi waird. Thare are varyin theories as tae the oreegin o the name "Abeno". Ane is that it wis the name o a pouerful faimily-clan in auncient Japan, anither suggests it micht come frae ane o Yamabe no Akahito's sangs in Man'yōshū, an anither theory suggests it micht come frae the "amabe" in Higashi-narigun-amabe-gou, an auncient place name. The theory o the pouerful faimily-clan name haulds strangest.

Train stations locatit in Abeno-ku

• West Japan Railway Company (JR West)
  • Hanwa Line: Bishoen Station - Minami-Tanabe Station - Tsurugaoka Station
• Kintetsu
  • Minami-Osaka Line: Osaka Abenobashi Station - Koboreguchi Station
• Hankai Tramway
  • Uemachi Line: Tennoji-eki-mae Station - Abeno Station - Matsumushi Station - Higashi-Tengachaya Station - Kitabatake Station - Himematsu Station
• Osaka Municipal Subway
  • Midōsuji Line: Tennoji Station - Showacho Station - Nishitanabe Station
  • Tanimachi Line: Abeno Station - Fuminosato Station

Freemit airtins

Media relatit tae Abeno-ku, Osaka at Wikimedia Commons

• Offeecial wabsteid o Abeno Archived 2010-09-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Inglis)