Tsuruhashi & Osaka Koreatown
鶴橋・大阪コリアタウン
One of Japan’s largest Korean communities. The smell of grilled meat greets you the moment you leave Tsuruhashi Station, and the markets and Koreatown street are full of exotic flavor.
The Tsuruhashi area is home to one of Japan’s largest Zainichi Korean communities. Around JR and Kintetsu Tsuruhashi Station, Tsuruhashi Market is a maze of alleys selling kimchi, Korean side dishes, hanbok and seafood. The stations are surrounded by dense clusters of yakiniku restaurants, so you can smell grilled meat as soon as you step out. About 10 minutes on foot to the southeast is the “Osaka Koreatown” in Ikuno Ward, along Miyukidori Shopping Street. Its roughly 500-meter street is lined with Korean restaurants, Korean cosmetics shops and K-pop merchandise stores, and it draws many young people on weekends. Some shops close on Wednesdays or Sundays. It is a good spot for a barbecue dinner, about 5 minutes by Kintetsu train from Namba.
Opening hours
Shops approx. 10:00–18:00; yakiniku restaurants open until late night
Nearby sights
- Shitennō-ji
- Abeno Harukas
- Osaka Museum of History
- Osaka Castle
- Tennoji Park & Tennoji Zoo
- Den Den Town (Nipponbashi)
- Kuromon Ichiba Market
- Shinsekai & Tsutenkaku