Higashinada-ku (Kobe)
| Higashinada-ku 東灘 区 Municipality of Kobe |
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| Geographical location in Japan | |||
| Region : | Kinki | ||
| Prefecture : | Hyogo | ||
| Coordinates : | 34 ° 43 ' N , 135 ° 16' E | ||
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| Surface: | 30.36 km² | ||
| Residents : | 214,255 (October 1, 2019) |
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| Population density : | 7057 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Community key : | 28101-8 | ||
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| Flower : | Ume | ||
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| Address : |
Higashinada Ward Office 5 - 2 - 1 , Sumiyoshi-Higashimachi Higashinada-ku, Kobe-shi Hyōgo 658-8570 |
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| Website URL: | www.city.kobe.lg.jp/ward/kuyakusho/higashinada/ | ||
| Location Higashinada-kus in the city of Kobe | |||
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Higashinada-ku ( Japanese 東灘 区 , dt "District East Nada") is a district ( ku ) of Kobe .
geography
Higashinada has around 4 km of paved coastline with three smaller and one large artificial island in front of it and extends in the north to the 931 m high summit of Rokkō . The most important districts of today, Mikage, Sumiyoshi and Okamoto, have grown historically, while Rokkōmichi only experienced strong development in the post-war period and Rokkō Island was not completed until the early 1990s .
history
The area belonged in the Edo period first to Han of Amagasaki , changing with the development of so-called Nadagōgō-area, one for the sake excellent -production belts of east Nishinomiya to this Hyogo-ku , for reaching the immediate area ( tenryō ) of Tennos . In 1889 , the municipality ( chō ) Mikage and the villages ( son ) Sumiyoshi, Uozaki, Honjō and Yamamoto were formed in the district of Muko ( kreis 郡 ) .
The completion of the Hanshin main line between Osaka and Kobe in 1905 gave the area a major boost, known as Hanshinkan Modernism .
In July 1938, the area experienced a particularly large flood, on March 17, 1945 air raids on Kobe destroyed the city area. After the war, both the city of Kobe in the west and the city of Ashiya as its eastern neighbor tried to incorporate the five independent administrative areas. The formation of an independent city of Kōnan was also up for discussion .
On April 1, 1950, Mikage, Sumiyoshi and Uozaki joined the city of Kobe. The claim to the traditional name Nada , which has been awarded nationwide for sake and which means "[to] the open sea", which the accession area would have rightly carried more than other communities in the Hanshin area, could not be realized because it is one District of this name already existed and the proposed name change was ultimately rejected. So the name Higashinada came about .
On October 10th of the year Honjō and Motoyama merged and joined the district. In 1993 Rokkō Island was completed.
The 1995 Kobe earthquake caused the greatest damage in Higashinada in direct action and claimed the most lives in comparison to the districts with 1471 deaths (see also: Nagata-ku ). The reasons were partly the type of development and the proportion of the district in the area with the strongest vibrations. The latter was partly due to the previous floods and landslides and the resulting lower strength of the backfilled plots. As a result of the 1995 earthquake, the population of the district decreased from 190,000 to 155,000. In 2003 the population exceeded 200,000 for the first time.
traffic
Higashinada is by railway lines JR West, JR Kobe Line as a section of the Tōkaidō Main Line , Hankyū Kobe Main Line , Hanshin Denki Tetsudō Hanshin Main Line in an east-west direction, the People Mover Rokkō Liner between JR Sumiyoshi Station, Hanshin- Uozumi station and Rokkō Island as well as the Hanshin highways No. 3 and No. 5 are very well developed. Commuters can reach Sannomiya in less than half an hour, and Umeda in Osaka in just over half an hour.
Attractions
- Otomezuka- Kofun ( 処女 塚 古墳 ) in Mikage
- Honsumiyoshi-jinja ( 本 住 吉 神社 )
- Okamoto Plum Garden ( 岡本 梅林 公園 )
- Danjiri- Matsuri (moving in May)
education
Higashinada-ku is home to the universities of Kōnan University ( 甲 南 大学 ), Kōnan Women's University ( 甲 南 女子 大学 ), Kobe Pharmaceutical University ( 神 戸 薬 科 大学 ), Kobe International University ( 神 戸 国際 大学 ) and the English-speaking international school Canadian Academy.
Museums and galleries are the Kobe Fashion Museum, the Hakutsuru Gallery ( 白鶴 美術館 , Hakutsuru bijutsukan ) of the great sake manufacturer Hakutsuru , the Kobe-shiritsu Koiso Kinen Bijutsukan ( 神 戸 市立 小 磯 記念 美術館 , English Kobe City Koiso Memorial Museum of Art ), the Kōsetsu gallery ( 香雪 美術館 , Kōsetsu bijutsukan ) and the Sera gallery ( 世 良 美術館 , Sera bijutsukan ).
Web links
- Natural disasters in the Rokkō area (Japanese)
