This website is the official website of Osaka City (Osaka), providing an overview of Osaka City, information for citizens, tourism, municipal ordinances, municipal reforms, and administrative offices. Osaka City is located in the western part of Honshu, Japan, on the Kinki Plain, facing Osaka Bay. It is one of the central and decreed cities in the western part of Osaka Prefecture, and is the administrative, industrial, cultural and transportation center of the Kinki region, Keihanshin Metropolitan Area and Osaka Metropolitan Area, as well as the seat of Osaka Prefectural Government.