Higashi-ku (Sapporo)

Higashi-ku (東区) ; municipality of Sapporo
Coordinates	43 ° 4 '35 " N , 141 ° 21' 49" E Coordinates: 43 ° 4 '35 " N , 141 ° 21' 49" E
surface	56.97 km²
Residents	261,901 (Sep. 30, 2019)
Population density	4597 inhabitants / km²
Start-up	Apr 1, 1972
Community key	01103-7
Website	www.city.sapporo.jp/ ; higashi /

Higashi-ku ( Japanese 東区 , dt. "Eastern District") is one of ten boroughs ( ku ) of Sapporo , the capital of the Japanese prefecture of Hokkaidō . It is 56.97 km² and is located northeast of the city center. In the north it borders on the municipality of Tōbetsu , in the east on the city of Ebetsu , in the southeast on Shiroishi-ku , in the southwest on Chūō-ku and in the west on Kita-ku .

geography

The city district extends 9.3 km in an east-west direction and 11.0 km in a north-south direction. The terrain on the edge of the Ishikari Plain is largely flat. The only notable elevation is the 62 m high Moere-yama, an artificially raised hill in the center of Moerenuma Park . The Toyohira River forms the eastern boundary of the district and flows into the Ishikari , which borders the district in the far north. Other significant tributaries are the Fushiko and Sōsei Canal; the latter limits the district to the west. Larger areas in the north are used for agriculture, especially for growing onions. In the far south there are extensive industrial zones and the main workshop of the JR Hokkaido railway company .

history

1866 drew Samurai Ōtomo Kametarō on behalf of the Tokugawa - shogunate near the Ainu -Siedlung Satsuporo. He settled there with some farmers and built the Sōsei Canal to promote agriculture. The village of Sapporo emerged from the settlement - not to be confused with the planned town of the same name, founded three years later and located around two kilometers to the southwest, today's city center. Other villages emerged in the early Meiji period in the 1870s. A sugar factory started operations in 1888, which was converted into a brewery by Sapporo Beer 15 years later (now used as a museum).

In 1902 the villages of Sapporo, Kariki, Naebo and Okadama merged to form the municipality of Sapporo. From 1909 Naebo was the location of the main workshop of the Ministry of Railways responsible for Hokkaidō . 1944 built Imperial Japanese Army to Okadama airport and used it as an air force base; since 1956 it has also been used for civil aviation. In the 1950 census, the community of Sapporo had 8,851 inhabitants, on March 1, 1955, it was incorporated into the neighboring city of Sapporo. Finally, on April 1, 1972, the government created the Higashi-ku District.

Okadama Airport proved to be too small after a few years, which is why most of the scheduled traffic moved to Chitose in the 1960s . In 1988 Higashi-ku was connected to the subway network. While the district had been rather inconspicuous until then, the Satoland amusement park and Moerenuma Park have attracted numerous tourists since the 1990s.

traffic

The Okadama Airport serves the regional transport and general aviation . The Sasson Highway crosses the district from east to west and leads to Otaru . On both sides of the Sōsei Canal, the national road 231 in the direction of Rumoi forms the western district boundary. In the southeast the national road 275 leads to Takikawa .

The Tōhō line of the Sapporo subway opens up the southwestern part of the district with the stations Kita-jūsanjō-higashi, Higashi-Kuyakusho-mae, Kanjō-dōri-higashi, Motomachi, Shindō-higashi and Sakaemachi. The Hakodate main line with Naebo station forms the southern district boundary. There are also several bus routes operated by private companies.

Attractions

Higashi-ku City Hall
Okadama Airport
Beer museum
Moerenuma Park

education

State institutions

Higashi-ku is the location of the Sapporo Correctional Facility. The Japanese Self-Defense Forces use Okadama Airport as a base for reconnaissance planes and helicopters.

Web links

Commons : Higashi-ku (Sapporo) - collection of images, videos and audio files

Higashi-ku website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

↑ 東区ってこんなまち. Higashi-ku, March 26, 2018, accessed April 17, 2018 (Japanese).
↑ Ann B. Irish: Hokkaido: A Historiy of Ethnic Transition and Development on Japan's Northern Island . Jefferson (North Carolina) 2009, ISBN 978-0-7864-4449-6 , pp. 161 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c 東区歴史年表. Higashi-ku, December 20, 2016, accessed April 17, 2018 (Japanese).

[1] 東区ってこんなまち. Higashi-ku, March 26, 2018, accessed April 17, 2018 (Japanese).

[2] Ann B. Irish: Hokkaido: A Historiy of Ethnic Transition and Development on Japan's Northern Island . Jefferson (North Carolina) 2009, ISBN 978-0-7864-4449-6 , pp. 161 .

[hist-3] 東区歴史年表. Higashi-ku, December 20, 2016, accessed April 17, 2018 (Japanese).