Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Kita (北) is Japanese for "north." It is a common ward name, and can be found in several cities: Kita-ku, Kobe Kita-ku, Kyoto Kita-ku, Nagoya Kita-ku, Osaka Kita-ku, Saitama Kita-ku, Sapporo Kita-ku, Tokyo "Kita" is also a local term for the northern commercial district of Osaka (part of, but not the same as, Kita-ku). This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.