We entered Japan from Osaka.
There are many kanji from Old Chinese in Japanese. The word "saka" in Osaka is a variant of "saka", which means hillside or slope.
I don't know if the name of Osaka is related to the slopes and slopes, but in Japan, there are many places named after "saka", and the meaning of this is slope. The more famous ones are the Nienzaka and Sanenzaka near Kiyomizudera Temple in Kyoto. The slope near Kiyomizu-dera Temple is named "Kiyomizu-zaka". Not far from Kiyomizu-dera Temple, there are also Yasaka Pagoda and Yasaka Shrine.
The word "saka", although now only "such as pill walking saka" to describe the rapid, other occasions are rare, but in ancient books, the word "saka" is common. For example, in Li Bai's poem "Tianma Song", there is a verse of "The salt cart is on the mountain, and the perverse is afraid of the day and the night". In Du Fu's poem "Sadness and Qingsaka", there is also "Our army's Qingban is at the east gate, and the weather is cold and drinks Matthew White Grotto". "Former Han Emperor Wen Ji" has such a record: The emperor from the Baling, want to gallop west to the Junban, and stop fighting. In the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, there are: mining soil to build mountains, ten miles and nine mountains.
Judging from the many places in Japan named after "坂", Japan has indeed understood the meaning of the word "坂" in ancient Chinese and used it to the extreme in practice. However, we who were the first to use the word "坂" now seem to use "slope" instead of "坂". Dangyang's "Changsaka Slope", although there is a "Ban" character, but in the end, it is worried that people do not understand the meaning of "Ban", and finally adds a "slope" character to supplement the explanation. This is popular, but it always feels a little less literary.
The reason why Nienzaka and Sanenzaka are famous is not because of their ramps, but because of the traditional houses on both sides of the street. Some of these houses are engaged in restaurants, while others sell department stores. Tourists can enjoy the needs of eating and shopping while admiring the houses, and it is indeed a good place to go.
Perhaps it is because of the traditional characteristics of the houses on both sides of the street that many tourists come to stop and check in. From time to time, there are also girls in kimonos who take pictures in front of the houses. In front of the traditional house, there is a modern woman dressed in traditional clothes, and under the sunlight, it makes people feel a kind of nostalgia for the past.