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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 109 travel and transportation

Best travel and transportation in Osaka

The 10 most notable travel and transportation 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

    堺筋線 北浜駅 (Kitahama Sta.)(K14)

    中央区北浜1-8-16

    58 m from Kitahama Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.631, percentile 100 of 109

  2. 2

    堺筋線恵美須町駅

    浪速区日本橋5丁目5-15

    42 m from Ebisuchō Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.628, percentile 99.07 of 109

  3. 3

    千日前線 西長堀駅 (S14)

    西区北堀江3-12-20

    212 m from Nishi-Nagahori Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.613, percentile 98.15 of 109

  4. 4

    西日本ジェイアールバス株式会社大阪北営業所

    大阪府大阪市北区豊崎6丁目2−31

    633 m from Nakatsu Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.543, percentile 97.22 of 109

  5. 5

    堺のんびりクルーズ

    南海本線 堺駅前

    50 m from Sakai Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.487, percentile 96.3 of 109

  6. 6

    一本松海運株式会社

    北区中之島6-4-7          (本社住所です。乗り場ではありません。)

    536 m from Ōsakashijō Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.477, percentile 95.37 of 109

  7. 7

    千本松渡船場

    1 Chome-11-1 Minamiokajima

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.436, percentile 94.44 of 109

  8. 8

    大喜丸

    1-1 Tenmabashikyomachi

    96 m from Temmabashi Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.413, percentile 93.52 of 109

  9. 9

    大阪南港フェリーターミナル

    住之江区南港南2丁目2-24

    234 m from Ferry Terminal Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.383, percentile 92.59 of 109

  10. 10

    南海バス 東山営業所

    中区東山803

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.374, percentile 91.67 of 109

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).