Umeda is a major commercial, business, shopping and entertainment district in Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan, and the city's main northern railway terminus. The district's name means "plum field". Umeda was historically called Umeda Haka, because it was one of the seven largest cemeteries of Osaka from the Edo period until the first twenty years of the Meiji peri…Umeda is a major commercial, business, shopping and entertainment district in Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan, and the city's main northern railway terminus. The district's name means "plum field". Umeda was historically called Umeda Haka, because it was one of the seven largest cemeteries of Osaka from the Edo period until the first twenty years of the Meiji period. In 2020, survey teams for the Umekita redevelopment project discovered ancient burial remains of over 1,500 people. Experts say these remains were of commoners, not the aristocracy. They used several burial styles, both cremated as well as buried with enclosed wooden caskets, barrel-shaped open containers and earthenware coffins called kameganbo. They found burial items such as pipes, clay dolls, rokusenmon and juzudama. A stone wall separated a mass grave with skeletons that were only covered by soil. These are suspected to have died in a plague.
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