Tarumi-ku (Kobe)
| Tarumi-ku 垂 水 区 Municipality of Kobe |
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| Geographical location in Japan | |||
| Region : | Kinki | ||
| Prefecture : | Hyogo | ||
| Coordinates : | 34 ° 38 ' N , 135 ° 3' E | ||
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| Surface: | 28.02 km² | ||
| Residents : | 216,337 (October 1, 2019) |
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| Population density : | 7721 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Community key : | 28108-5 | ||
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| Flower : | Pelargonium | ||
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| Address : |
Tarumi Ward Office 1 - 5 - 1 , Hyūga Tarumi-ku, Kōbe-shi Hyōgo 655-8570 |
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| Website URL: | www.city.kobe.lg.jp/ward/kuyakusho/tarumi/ | ||
| Location Tarumi-kus in the city of Kobe | |||
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Tarumi-ku ( Japanese 垂 水 区 ) is a municipality ( ku ) of Kobe .
geography
Tarumi-ku is by the sea and is the westernmost of the boroughs. Its long paved coastline extends to the city of Akashi . Inland Tarumi-ku is hilly and almost completely built up.
traffic
Between the elevations and the sea, the JR Kobe Line , as a section of the San'yō Main Line of the JR West , the main line of the San'yō Denki Tetsudō , but also the National Road 2 directly on the coast along its routes.
Attractions
The narrowest point of the Akashi Strait ( 明石 海峡 , Akashi-kaikyō ) is located in the southwest of Tarumi and also serves as the northern bridgehead of the Akashi-Kaikyō Bridge . It is the bridge with the longest free-floating span in the world. Nearby, Azur Maiko was created, a facility with artificial bathing beaches that had to be closed repeatedly because the sand had been poured off.
The largest outlet in Western Japan, Portobazar, is by the sea near the large bridge .
Tarumi-ku is known in the area for Ikanago .
Other special features include
- the Goshikizuka-kofun
- of James Hill , a foreigner settlement from the 1930 years of around 60 houses on a beautifully situated hillside overlooking the Bay of Osaka , which goes back to the Englishman Ernest William James.
- the Watatsumi-jinja shrine ( 海 神社 )
sons and daughters of the town
- Shinji Kagawa (* 1989), soccer player
