About Nakanoshima

Creative Island Nakanoshima, the highest cultural hub

Nakanoshima, Osaka, is a treasure trove of world-class cultural assets where nature and urban attractions are concentrated. This project is being promoted mainly to creative classes aimed at business and interdisciplinary inbound tourism by improving the cultural assets of Creative Island Nakanoshima, which has a different history and urban character from Kita (Umeda) and Minami (Namba Shinsaibashi). At the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, the symbol business “Nakanoshima Pavilion Festival” will be held to disseminate the brand worldwide.

Dissemination of the Nakanoshima brand worldwide

Nakanoshima, an important base in Osaka, which will host the Osaka-Kansai Expo in 2025, is home to more than a dozen cultural facilities, including museums and concert halls.

In addition, it is a unique urban space like Historic buildings, corporate skyscrapers, rich waterside environments and parks sandwiched between rivers, and is filled with world-class international cultural assets like 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. With Nakanoshima as a whole as a unique base, we aim to develop and create high-quality creative content and implement a sustainable co-creation ecosystem.

By Blanding Nakanoshima as Japan's proud “Cultural Arts Creation Island,” we will create and disseminate the “Creative Town Nakanoshima” that attracts people from all over the world.

Global Potential Similarities and characteristics with the world's most prominent city island and Nakashu

The land along the city center islands, Nakashu, and rivers as an indispensable infrastructure for the logistics economy that contributes to modernization has completed its role, and has developed as a creative city by accumulating art and academic bases of museums and theaters, parks, etc. There are precedents of cities in the world. Nakanoshima has the potential of global standards and is designated as an "emergency development area for specific urban regeneration (especially effective area for strengthening international competitiveness)".

Historical Potential Symbols of Modern and Contemporary Japanese History and Culture

After the development of the Jyoan Yodoya in Azuchi-Momoyama period since the Middle Ages, Nakanoshima opened a U.S.-kaisho, and during the Edo period, it was a place where people, goods and information gathered as a kitchen in the world lined with warehouses of each clan. Furthermore, during the Meiji and Taisho eras, it flourished as a symbol of the Great Osaka era, and in modern times, it is a region boasting a unique personality in Japan, with many cultural facilities concentrated along with administrative agencies, finance, news, and major corporate buildings. .