Tsukuba (Ibaraki)
Tsukuba-shi つ く ば 市 |
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Geographical location in Japan | ||
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Region : | Kanto | |
Prefecture : | Ibaraki | |
Coordinates : | 36 ° 5 ' N , 140 ° 7' E | |
Basic data | ||
Surface: | 284.07 km² | |
Residents : | 240,987 (October 1, 2019) |
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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 |
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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
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
Personalities
- Gorō Kawanami (* 1991), football player
- Hirohito Shinohara (* 1993), football player
- Masato Yuzawa (* 1993), football player
Web links
- 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)