About Nakanoshima

Creative Island Nakanoshima, the highest cultural agglomeration area

Osaka and Nakanoshima is a treasure trove of world's highest cultural assets where nature and urban attractions are concentrated. We refine the cultural assets of Creative Island Nakanoshima, which has a different history and urban style from Kita (Umeda) and Minami (Shinsaibashi Namba), and promote this project mainly for creative classes aimed at inbound business and interdisciplinary activities. The Nakanoshima Pavilion Festival will be held at the Osaka and Kansai Expo 2025 to promote the brand worldwide.

Global transmission of the Nakanoshima brand

Nakanoshima, an important base of Mizuto Osaka, where the Osaka and Kansai Expos will be held in 2025, is home to more than a dozen cultural facilities such as museums and concert halls.

In addition, it is a unique urban space such as Historic buildings, corporate skyscrapers, rich waterside environment and parks sandwiched between rivers,Île de la Cité in Paris and Museum Island in Berlin.

Creative Island Nakanoshima was established in 2019 as one of the largest creative networks in Japan. This project aims to develop and create high-quality creative content and implement a sustainable co-creation ecosystem with the entire Nakanoshima as a unique source.

Nakanoshima will be Blanding as Japan's proud “Cultural Art Creation Island” to create and disseminate “Nakanoshima, a creative city that attracts people from all over the world.

Global Potential Similarities and characteristics with the island and Chushu of the world's famous city

After completing its role, the land along the central island, Chushu, and river as an indispensable infrastructure for the logistics economy that contributes to modernization has been developed as a creative city by accumulating art and academic bases of art museums and theaters and parks. There are precedents of cities in the world. Nakanoshima has the potential of global standards and has been designated as a "Specific Urban Renewal Emergency Development Area (a particularly effective area for strengthening international competitiveness)".

Historical Potential symbols of modern and contemporary history and culture of Japan

After pioneering by Jyoan Yodoya in Azuchi-Momoyama period since the Middle Ages, Nakanoshima was a place where people, goods and information gathered as a world-class kitchen lined with warehouses of each clan during the Edo period. In addition, during the Meiji and Taisho eras, it flourished as a symbol of the Great Osaka era, and in today's modern era, many cultural facilities are concentrated along with administrative agencies, finance and press, and major corporate buildings, making it a world-class area with a unique personality in Japan.