Tsukuba (Ibaraki)

Tsukuba-shi つ く ば 市
Geographical location in Japan
Region :	Kanto
Prefecture :	Ibaraki
Coordinates :	36 ° 5 '  N , 140 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 36 ° 4 '50 "  N , 140 ° 6' 53"  E
Basic data
Surface:	284.07 km²
Residents :	240,987 (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	848 inhabitants per km²
Community key :	08220-1
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Tree :	Japanese zelkove
Flower :	Creeping Saxifrage
Bird :	Ural Owl
town hall
Address :	Tsukuba City Hall 4741 Yatabe Tsukuba -shi Ibaraki  305-8555
Website URL:	http://www.city.tsukuba.ibaraki.jp
Location of Tsukubas in Ibaraki Prefecture

Tsukuba ( Japanese つ く ば 市 , -shi ) is a city in Ibaraki Prefecture on Honshū , the main island of Japan . Tsukuba is located around 60 km northeast of Tokyo .

The National Land Survey of Japan ( Kokudo Chiriin ) has its main office in Tsukuba.

geography

Nearby is the famous Tsukuba Mountain .

Attractions

• Ōmi-dō

traffic

• Street:
  • Jōban highway to Tokyo or Iwaki
  • National road 6 to Chūō or Sendai
  • National Road 125 to Katori or Kumagaya
  • National Road 354 to Takasaki or Hokota
  • National Road 408 to Narita or Takanezawa
• Train:
  • Tsukuba Express (TX) to Akihabara (Tokyo)
• bus
  • Direct line to Tokyo Narita Airport
  • Direct line to Haneda Airport

education

The city was planned as the "City of Science" in the early 1960s and built from 1970 onwards. There are three universities here , Tsukuba University , Tsukuba Gakuin University and the medical faculty of Tsukuba University Hospital, over 300 state and private research institutes, as well as a large number of companies in the high-tech industry. In 1985, the Tsukuba International Exhibition took place in Tsukuba from March 17th to September 16th under the motto “Apartments and the environment - science and technology for people at home”. A year later the Tsukuba Expo Center was opened as a science museum, and the Kagaku Bampaku Kinen Kōen (Expo Memorial Park) still commemorates this world exhibition.

In addition to a number of other research institutions, JAXA also maintains a research institute in the Tsukuba Space Center with several test laboratories and technical facilities for production and development. The KEK , a national research center for high energy physics, is also located here . Four Nobel Prize winners, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga for Physics in 1965, for Chemistry in 1973, Leo Esaki , for Physics in 2000, Hideki Shirakawa , and for Physics in 2008, Makoto Kobayashi , conducted research in Tsukuba.

Town twinning

• Cambridge , Massachusetts , USA
• Irvine , California , USA
• Milpitas , California, USA
• Shenzhen , Guangdong , PRC
• Bochum , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany

Neighboring cities and communities

• Tsuchiura
• Ishioka
• Ushiku
• Ryugasaki
• Shimotsuma
• Sakuragawa
• Tsukubamirai
• Chikusei
• Jōsō

Personalities

• Gorō Kawanami (* 1991), football player
• Hirohito Shinohara (* 1993), football player
• Masato Yuzawa (* 1993), football player

Web links

Commons : Tsukuba  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website (English)
• Official Website (Japanese)
• Tsukuba University (Japanese, English)
• Tsukuba Gakuin University (Japanese)
• Tsukuba University Hospital (Japanese, English)
• Tsukuba International School (English)
• JAXA Tsukuba Space Center (Japanese, English)
• KEK Research Center for High Energy Physics (Japanese, English)
• International Convention Center Epochal Tsukuba (Japanese, English)
• Tsukuba Expo Center (Japanese)
• Tsukuba Botanical Garden (Japanese, English)

Tsukuba City Hall