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JAPAN
OSAKA
Location
: Osaka City Higash-Sumiyoshi-ku
Use : multi-purpose
stadium
Construction period
: Completed in May, 1996
Seats : 45,409
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the matches and how do I get there? |
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June
12
June 14
June 22 |
15:30
(06:30 GMT)
15:30 (06:30 GMT)
20:30 (11:30 GMT) |
F2 v F3
H4 v Japan
Quarter-Final D
(Win. Game 6 v Win. Game 8)
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Air
9 flights daily from Tokyo (1 hour) to both Osaka Itami
Airport and Kansai International. From Kansai
International Airport to downtown Osaka in under an hour
by JR "Haruka" train, Nankai "rapi:t"
train or airport bus.
Train Tokyo to
Osaka by Tokaido Shinkansen super-express (2 hours
thirty minutes).
Walk Nagai Stadium
is 5 minutes on foot from both JR Tsurugaoka Station on
the Hanwa Line and Nagai Station on the Midosuji subway
line.
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Osaka City is the
3rd commercial and industrial city after Yokohama in Japan.
Most of the city limits are in the delta of the downstream of
the Yotokawa River and it is nicknamed ¡®Birthplace of Water¡¯
because many canals go through it. Offices, *broadcasting
stations,*central gymnasiums,*national hospitals and other
institutions are gathered at the Osaka castle park area in the
northernmost extreme. Many universities and Shitennosa and
other famous temples are located there also. The city¡¯s
surroundings are Bodu industrial districts and it has water
transportation from the Osaka harbor because the southern part
is a coastal industrial park. It is also a heavy chemical
industrial area with many large scaled factories of iron
manufacturing,*shipbuilding,*vehicle manufacturing,*chemical
industries and more. The northern part is a Yotokawa
industrial area depending on plenty of industrial water to
develop chemical engineering in spinning,*dyeing,*medicine and
more. And the eastern part is a Joto industrial area formed by
medium and small scaled industries making various
metal,*machines,* miscellaneous articles and more. Industries
are rapidly growing, and recently pollution like ground
and*air pollution,*noise, and *traffic jams are causing big
problems and pollution-control measures are being taken.
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