I also need to know how to get to the nearest subway station from Osaka Station. I understand there is an approx. 5-minutes walk involved. I'm totally directionally challenged and I can get lost in less than 2 minutes, so plz be concise and clear. Any help will be greatly appreciated. :-)

There are subway stations all around and below Osaka Station (they are named Umeda Station and Nishi-Umeda Station). Signage is very good, so you should be able to find a subway station easily.

A couple of years ago when I, along with 3 other Americans, arrived in Shin-Osaka Station and were trying to get out of there so we can get to our hotel, I felt like we were in the ant farm with fifty thousand eight hundred seventy-four ants in an underground passage way...everybody else, except us, was moving but we were frozen in place in awe. A funny picture when I think about it now, but it wasn't then. Pathetic, isn't it? :-)