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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 48 public transit

Best public transit in Osaka

The 10 most notable public transit in Osaka, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.

  1. 1

    Vipヴィラなんば

    浪速区難波中1-2-1

    109 m from Ōsaka Namba Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.597, percentile 100 of 48

  2. 2

    ハービスOsakaバスターミナル

    大阪府大阪市北区梅田2丁目2−22

    149 m from Nishi-Umeda Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.588, percentile 97.87 of 48

  3. 3

    近鉄 高速バスセンター

    天王寺区上本町6-1-55

    100 m from Ōsaka Uehommachi Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.572, percentile 95.74 of 48

  4. 4

    日本交通 弁天営業所

    港区磯路2-23-27

    578 m from Bentenchō Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.537, percentile 93.62 of 48

  5. 5

    阪急(三番街)高速バスターミナル

    北区芝田1丁目

    13 m from Osaka-Umeda Station (Hankyu), rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.460, percentile 91.49 of 48

  6. 6

    ONE PARK花田口駅前

    堺区車之町西1丁目1-17

    759 m from Sakai Station, rail

    listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.438, percentile 89.36 of 48

  7. 7

    ドーム前千代崎(京セラドーム大阪)バス停

    千代崎3丁目

    34 m from Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.404, percentile 87.23 of 48

  8. 8

    Sheraton Miyako Hotel Osaka

    天王寺区上本町6丁目1-55

    63 m from Ōsaka Uehommachi Station, rail

    listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.395, percentile 85.11 of 48

  9. 9

    南海バス 堺東駅前案内所

    堺区三国ヶ丘御幸通39

    105 m from Sakaihigashi Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.293, percentile 82.98 of 48

  10. 10

    大阪産業大学バスターミナル

    末広町12

    213 m from Suminodō Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.283, percentile 80.85 of 48

How this list is made

Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:

attestation by independent providers
+0.35
record completeness (website, phone, address)
+0.25
Overture existence confidence
+0.20
Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
+0.40
brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
−0.15
same-name chain collision
−0.30

Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.

No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste

Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.

The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.

Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.

Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.

Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).