Chūō-ku (Kobe)
| Chūō-ku 中央 区 Municipality of Kobe |
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| Geographical location in Japan | |||
| Region : | Kinki | ||
| Prefecture : | Hyogo | ||
| Coordinates : | 34 ° 42 ' N , 135 ° 12' E | ||
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| Surface: | 28.39 km² | ||
| Residents : | 142,232 (October 1, 2019) |
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| Population density : | 5010 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Community key : | 28110-7 | ||
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| Flower : | petunia | ||
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| Address : |
Chūō Ward Office 5 - 1 - 1 , Kumoidōri Chūō-ku, Kōbe-shi Hyōgo 651-2195 |
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| Website URL: | www.city.kobe.lg.jp/ward/kuyakusho/chuou/ | ||
| Location Chūō-kus in the city of Kobe | |||
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Chūō-ku ( Japanese. 中央 区 , dt. "District center") is a municipality ( ku ) of Kobe .
geography
The Chūō-ku district was formed in 1980 from the then Fukiai-ku and Ikuta-ku districts and extends from the JR Kobe station in the southwest to just before Nada station in the east and from Osaka Bay in the south to a height of 469 m Futatabi-san of the Rokkō ridge. The artificial islands of Port Island and Kobe Airport are also part of the district.
Most of the cultural, economic and tourist centers of the city of Kobe are located in Chūō-ku:
- the city center Sannomiya ( 三 宮 ),
- the Motomachi office and business district ( 元町 ),
- the former foreigners and trading district Kyukyoryūchi ( 旧居 留置 ),
- the old harbor and new shopping district Harborland ( ハ ー バ ー ラ ン ド ),
- the former foreigners' quarter Kitano-chō ( 北野 町 ), which is a listed building ,
- the Chinatown Nankin-machi ( 南京 町 ) and
- the newest urban development project HAT Kobe.
history
The fishing village of Hyōgo in the neighboring district of the same name and temple complexes near the Ikuta shrine in Chūō formed the beginnings of the city of Kōbe, which was founded in 1868 as a foreign trade port.
The 1995 Kobe earthquake caused immense damage in Chūō-ku. Following the quake, the uninhabited and now deserted streets around the Higashimongai amusement mile were occasionally looted at night.
The land connections to the east, i.e. to the east of the city, to Osaka and Kyoto, were interrupted and the city was cut into two parts for weeks, with Chūō-ku from Akashi and supplied by the sea.
traffic
The district has the Kobe Airport .
Railway lines: the JR West San'yō Shinkansen with a stop at Shin-Kōbe station , the JR Kōbe line as a section of the Tōkaidō main line , the Hankyū Kōbe main line , the San'yō Denki Tetsudō main line , the Kobe Kōsoku Tetsudō Tōzai- line , the Seishin-Yamate line and Kaigan line of Kobe Municipal subway and Kobe Shinkōtsū port-Iceland-line .
The Hanshin Motorway No. 3 crosses the district, several up to 7.2 km long tunnels under the Rokkō in connection with the Sanroku bypass connect Shin-Kobe with the northern and western environs.
Attractions
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Shinto shrines :
- Ikuta-jinja ( 生 田 神社 )
- Minatogawa-jinja ( 湊 川 神社 )
- Kitano-Tenman-jinja ( 北野 天 満 神社 )
- Sannomiya-jinja, site of the smaller Kobe incident in 1868
- Kobe offshoot of the Nishi Hongan-ji , the Hongan-ji-Kōbebetsuin ( 本 願 寺 神 戸 別 院 , also Modan-ji )
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Temple :
- Tairyū-ji ( 大 龍 寺 ) on the Futatabi Mountain
- Tokkō-in ( 徳 光 院 )
- the "weathercock house" from 1909 of the German dealer Gottfried Thomas and other foreigners' houses ( 異 人 館 ) in Kitano-chō
- Observation deck on the 24th floor of the town hall of Kobe
- the Nunobiki waterfall ( 布 引 の 滝 )
- the guest house with exhibition of the prefecture, Kobe Kōkan ( 神 戸 公館 )
- Sōrakuen gardens and residence ( 相 楽 園 )
- Chinatown Nankin-machi
- the landmark and observation tower Kobe Port Tower
- Meriken Park with the Kobe Maritime Museum
- Harbor tour from Harborland, e.g. B. with the ship Concerto
- Venus Bridge viewpoint
- annual Kobe Jazz Street
- Kobe Luminarie Festival of Lights in the run-up to Christmas from Hihashi-Kōen ( 東 公園 , literally: " East Park ") to Motomachi
- the Hyōgo Prefecture Gallery, built in 2002 by Tadao Andō
- Conference and trade fair complex "Kobe Convention Complex"
- the WHO Center for Health Development
- Sanchika underground passages ( さ ん ち か )
- Sannomiya Center-Gai shopping mall (to Kobe station)
- Mosaic retail and entertainment complex in Harborland
- Kobe Mosque
- catholic church Kobe
education
In Chūō-ku are the universities: Hyōgo Prefectural University, Kobe Municipal Nursing College and Kobe Yamate University.
Museums are the Kobe City Museum from 1935, the Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Center earthquake museum , the City Science Museum for children and young people, the Seishōnenkagakukan with planetarium ( 神 戸 市立 青少年 科学館 , often: Kobe Science Museum) and the UCC Coffee Museum.
