Fatal traffic accidents in Osaka, 2019-2025

Prefecture

Year

Time of day (4-hour bands)

Who died

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Last updated 19 October 2026

Zoomed out, nearby fatal accidents are counted in small squares; darker means more: One fatal accident (zoom in to see) 2 or more fatal accidents at the same spot (within about 50 m) Injury-accident hotspot (10 or more in 7 years; zoom in to see)

What this map shows

Zoom in to see each fatal accident as a point. Tap a point to see the year, the time of day and the type of accident.

Tap “Show accidents near me” to move the map to where you are. Choose a prefecture to count only the accidents there.

Use the year and time-of-day sliders to narrow the period. Choose “Night only” or “Pedestrians” to see where accidents on dark roads or while crossing are most common.

Turn on “Also show injury-accident hotspots” to see the junctions and roads where accidents, including those with injuries, happen most. Use it to check school routes and the roads you use every day.

Questions and answers

What counts as a fatal accident?

An accident in which someone died within 24 hours (the National Police Agency's definition). Statistics that count deaths within 30 days give different numbers.

Why is there no date or exact time?

So that the people who died cannot be identified, the map shows only the year and a four-hour time band, and locations are blurred to about 100 m.

When is it updated?

Once a year, after the National Police Agency publishes the previous year's accident data.

Osaka in numbers (2019-2025)

In the 7 years from 2019 to 2025, Osaka had 918 fatal accidents and 930 deaths (4.9% of Japan). 48% happened at night (Japan: 48%), and 302 killed a pedestrian. The worst year was 2023, with 145.

By type, 31% were vehicles hitting pedestrians, 46% were collisions between vehicles, 20% were single-vehicle accidents (Japan: 35%, 36%, 28%). The share of collisions between vehicles is 10 points higher than in Japan as a whole. The most common place was "Intersection" (43%), and 9% happened in rain, snow or fog (Japan: 12%).

By year

Year	Fatal accidents
2019	129
2020	122
2021	139
2022	138
2023	145
2024	126
2025	119

Municipalities with the most fatal accidents

Municipality	Fatal accidents
Higashiosaka-shi	62
Hirakata-shi	38
Sakai-ku, Sakai	37
Toyonaka-shi	28
Yao-shi	27
Takatsuki-shi	27
Ibaraki-shi	26
Suita-shi	24
Hirano-ku, Osaka	24
Nishi-ku, Sakai	23

Source: National Police Agency of Japan, Traffic Accident Statistics Open Data (2019-2025, main records)

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A "fatal accident" is one in which someone died within 24 hours (the National Police Agency's definition). Counts differ from statistics that count deaths within 30 days.

Locations are the accident sites recorded by the police. So that no one who died can be identified, each location is blurred to about 100 m (still fine enough to see which intersections are dangerous). For the same reason the map shows only the year and a 4-hour time band (e.g. 20:00-24:00), never the month, day, exact time, age or sex (age is used only for the national totals).

"Injury-accident hotspots" count every accident with casualties, including injuries only, in squares of about 50 m. When an intersection sits on the edge of a square, its count can be split between two squares.

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