Osaka Prefecture · Japan
Where to stay in Osaka
Osaka is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, home to about 2,752,000 people. This guide covers 30 hotels in Osaka.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 30
- Nearest airport
- ITM11 km · Osaka Itami International Airport
- Currency
- JPYyen
- Time zone
- Asia/Tokyo
- Language
- Japanese
About
About Osaka
Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the second biggest prefectural city, third-most populous city proper in Japan, following the special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama.
If Tokyo is Japan's capital, one might call Osaka its anti-capital. Ask a local, and they'll proudly tell you that while Tokyoites are reserved, polite and boring, Osakans are warm, friendly and colorful, in speech, clothing and spirit. The Osakan rallying cry is kuidaore (食い倒れ), bringing yourself to ruin through extravagance in food, drink and more – a far cry from the austere Zen discipline often associated with Japan. Osaka dates back to the Asuka and Nara period. Under the name Naniwa (難波), it was the capital of Japan from 683 to 745, long before the upstarts at Kyoto took over.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Where to stay
Places to stay in Osaka
30 places to stay from the chains this guide covers, each linked to its own website.
Show all 30
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
When to go
The best time to visit Osaka
Osaka has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 33 °C; July is the wettest, with about 217 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Osaka: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Osaka Itami International Airport (ITM), about 11 km from the city centre in a straight line; Kobe Airport (UKB, 26 km) and Kansai International Airport (KIX, 38 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
Kansai International Airport (KIX) is the main international gateway to Osaka (Metropolitan area airport codes: OSA). Also, Kobe Airport (UKB) is nearby and easily reachable by boat from Kansai Airport.
Getting around
If you are planning to travel beyond city limits you might consider using the tickets from Surutto Kansai. For use in Osaka and other cities in the west of Japan, there are some other useful tickets.
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
ITM · Osaka Itami International Airport
UKB · Kobe Airport
KIX · Kansai International Airport
Questions
Osaka: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Osaka?
Osaka has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 33 °C; July is the wettest, with about 217 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Osaka?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Osaka Itami International Airport (ITM), about 11 km from the city centre in a straight line; Kobe Airport (UKB, 26 km) and Kansai International Airport (KIX, 38 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Osaka?
yen (JPY).
Nearby
Destinations near Osaka
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.