The 'Awaji' and 'Sugawara' areas in Higashi Yodogawa Ward, Osaka City, were named after a historical event in which Michizane, as he was being transferred to Dazaifu, landed on a sandbank downstream of the Yodo-gawa River thinking that it was Awaji-shima Island.
大阪市東淀川区にある「淡路」「菅原」の地名は、道真が大宰府に左遷される際、当時淀川下流の中洲だったこの地を淡路島と勘違いして上陸したという故事にちなんだ地名である。