Minami (kanji 南, hiragana みなみ) is a Japanese word meaning "south". Places Japan There are several Minami wards in Japan, most of them appropriately in the south part of a city: Minami, Tokushima, a village in Tokushima Prefecture Minami-ku, Sapporo Minami-ku, Niigata Minami-ku, Saitama Minami-ku, Yokohama Minami-ku, Sagamihara Minami-ku, Hamamatsu Minami-ku, Nagoya Minami-ku, Kyoto Minami-ku, Sakai Minami-ku, Okayama Minami-ku, Hiroshima Minami-ku, Fukuoka Minami ward of Osaka merged with Higashi ward and is now part of Chūō ward. Other uses Minami (name) See also Other directions: Nishi (West) Higashi (disambiguation) (East) Kita (disambiguation) (North)