Asakita-ku (Hiroshima)

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Location of Asakita-ku in Hiroshima
View from Shiraki-yama to the northwest
Kegi station on the disused part of the Kabe railway line

The Asakita-ku ( Japanese 安佐 北区 , "Asa-North District") is one of the eight districts (- ku ) of the independent city (- shi ) Hiroshima , the capital of the western Japanese prefecture of Hiroshima . It is located in the northeast of the city and has an area of ​​353.35 km², making it the largest of the eight districts of the city of Hiroshima and one of the five largest districts of major cities designated by regulation in the whole country. Asakita has 140,460 inhabitants (as of June 1, 2019).

geography

The district is largely located on the left bank of the Ōta-gawa , which turns in a narrow valley from the northwest here in a wider valley to the south, in the west of the district there are also areas on the right bank. Another larger valley is the Misasa-gawa ( 三 篠 川 ) coming from the northeast , the district extends along the valley far to the northeast. The short Nenotani-gawa ( 根 谷川 ) comes from the mountains from the north . Much of the settlement of Asakita is in the plain where the three rivers meet. Away from the river valleys and smaller side valleys, Asakita extends far into the mountains. The Nabara Gorge Prefectural Park (Nabara-kyō kenritsu shizen kōen) is located in the district on the Nabara-gawa (flows into the Nenotani-gawa ) . The mountains in the district include the over 800 m high Shiraki-yama between Misasagawa and Nenotanigawa and the over 700 m high Kabe-Kanmuri-yama above the Nabara Gorge.

history

The district Asakita originated in 1980 with the appointment of the city of Hiroshima to the city by Government Regulation ( Seirei shitei toshi ) and includes parts of the fully eingemeindeten in the 1970s in the city of Hiroshima district (- gun ) Asa Hiroshima Prefecture, including the former county's cities ( -chō) Kōyō (in the south), Kabe (northwest of it) and Asa (in the west), as well as the former city of Shiraki (in the northeast on Misasagawa) from the Takata district , the remaining parts of which later merged into the city of Aki-Takata . In the southwest and south, the Asakita-ku borders on the districts of Saeki , Asaminami , Higashi and Aki of the city of Hiroshima, in the east and north on the independent cities of Higashi-Hiroshima and Aki-Takata and in the northwest on the district of Yamagata with the communities of Kita- Hiroshima and Aki-Ōta .

traffic

In the northwest the Chūgoku Highway runs through the district, from which the Hiroshima Highway branches off to the south. Major roads, the cable struc- ture Kaidō and the parallel Kabe bypass, here the national road 54, coming leaves from downtown Hiroshima Kabe the Ōta Valley and heads north towards Aki-Takata, and the national road 191 of Kabe To the northwest to the Hiroshima motorway and then as Kake-kaidō again through the Ōta valley towards Kake (now part of Aki-Ōta). In the southeast, the San'yō highway also runs through the district, but without a direct connection.

The district currently only has a railway connection in the east: the Kabe line of the JR Nishi-Nihon from the city center ends at Aki-Kameyama station today . The section from Kabe station to Sandankyō station in Aki-Ōta was closed in 2003, the short section to Kameyama was reopened in March 2017 after construction work for electrification. The Geibi Line of the JR Nishi-Nihon runs through the Misasa Valley to the northeast .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hiroshima City Administration: 安佐 北区 の 概況
  2. ↑ 広 島 県 の 人口 移動 （広 島 県 人口 移動 統計 調査） 最新 | 広 島 県 . 広 島 県 , June 1, 2019, accessed July 5, 2019 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ Hiroshima City Administration: 河川 の 種 別 と 管理 区分
  4. ↑ Hiroshima Prefecture Administration, ecoHiroshima: 南 原 峡 県 立 自然 公園
  5. ↑ 可 部 線 可 部 駅 ・ あ き 亀 山 駅 間 開業 記念 式 典 を 開 催 し ま し た . JR Nishi-Nihon , March 4, 2017, accessed March 2, 2019 (Japanese).

Coordinates: 34 ° 31 '  N , 132 ° 30'  E