Indian businesses and services in Osaka, Japan

Osaka's largest cluster of Indian restaurants is not downtown but around Shin-Osaka, the Shinkansen station north of the Yodo River. Yodogawa Ward, in Higashimikuni, Miyahara and Nishinakajima, and Higashiyodogawa Ward just east of it, in Higashinakajima and Awaji, hold more than a quarter of this list between them.

South of the river, Kita Ward has its share around Umeda, Nakatsu and Toyosaki, and in Chuo Ward the restaurants sit among the office blocks of Semba and Honmachi, in Bakuromachi and Minamihonmachi, a few streets from the Consulate General of India in Kyutaromachi. Kitahorie in Nishi Ward has a small group of its own, one of them a vegetarian and vegan kitchen.

Many of the names here, such as Everest, Lumbini, Sagarmatha and Kantipur, point to Nepal rather than India, as they do across Japan, where Nepali cooks run a large share of the curry houses. Two kitchens in Kita Ward are tagged Sri Lankan. Most of those that publish their hours serve lunch and then dinner until 22:00 or later. Kobe, Amagasaki, Suita and Takatsuki have pages of their own.