Honmachi & Yodoyabashi is a prime-tier Class A submarket of Osaka with average asking rent around ¥24,000/tsubo/mo · ≈ $54.2 PSF/yr USD.
Established financial CBD. · Tier: prime · Avg rent: ¥24,000/tsubo">tsubo/mo · ≈ $54.2 PSF/yr USD
Honmachi and Yodoyabashi anchor Osaka's established financial CBD — banking, trading houses, and the historic Mitsubishi UFJ and Sumitomo Mitsui Class A stock.
Banking (Mitsubishi UFJ, Sumitomo Mitsui), trading houses, insurance.
15–40,000 sqft floor plates available across newer Class A stock; 9'+ slab-to-slab and modern MEP common.
Yodoyabashi (Midosuji, Keihan), Honmachi (Midosuji, Chuo, Yotsubashi).
Multi-modal transit captures the metro's principal professional catchment.
Yodoyabashi Mitsubishi Building, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp HQ.
Honmachi & Yodoyabashi is one of 5 Class A submarkets we cover in Osaka, classified as prime tier with an average asking rent around ¥24,000/tsubo/mo · ≈ $54.2 PSF/yr USD. Compared with the broader Osaka Class A stock, Honmachi & Yodoyabashi typically attracts Banking (Mitsubishi UFJ, Sumitomo Mitsui), trading houses, insurance and competes most directly with the city's other prime submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.
Adjacent submarkets to study alongside Honmachi & Yodoyabashi: Umeda (Kita), Nakanoshima, Shin-Osaka, Nanba & Shinsaibashi. The full Osaka submarket atlas is at /cities/osaka.
For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating Honmachi & Yodoyabashi, the highest-leverage analyses to commission next are the rent benchmark, the concession-package comparable, and the ESG performance baseline. Class A Atlas covers each as a dedicated topic page for this submarket:
Terminology specific to Osaka Class A leasing and to the prime tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.
Reviewed by Kenji Watanabe — APAC contributing editor. Last updated 2026-04-15. See our methodology and editorial standards.