Chūō-ku, Kobe

Chūō -ku (中央 区Japanese, German " district center " ) is a municipality ( ku ) of Kobe.

Geography

The district Chūō -ku in 1980 formed from the former districts Fukiai -ku and Ikuta -ku, extending from the Kobe JR station in the southwest to just before the Nada Station in the east and from the Bay of Osaka in the south to 469 m high Futatabi -san of the Rokko mountain ridge. The artificial islands of Port Iceland and Kobe Airport belong to the district.

So are most of the cultural, economic and tourist centers of the city Kobe in Chūō -ku:

• Downtown Sannomiya (三 宫)
• Office and business district Motomachi (元町)
• The former Immigration and commercial district Kyukyoryuchi (旧居 留置)
• The old port and new shopping district Harbor Country (ハーバーランド)
• Asked the conservation former foreign quarters Kitano -chō (北野 町)
• Chinatown Nankin - machi (南京 町) and
• The latest urban development project HAS Kobe.

History

The fishing village of the same name Hyōgo neighboring district and temples near the Ikuta Shrine in Chūō formed the beginnings of the city of Kobe, which was founded in 1868 as a foreign trade port.

The earthquake in Kobe in 1995 taught at in Chūō -ku immense damage. Following the quake occurred in the unpopulated and now deserted streets to the amusement mile Higashimongai isolated on nocturnal depredations.

The land connections towards the east, ie, in the east of the city, to Osaka and Kyoto were interrupted and the city for weeks or less cut into two parts, supplies Chūō -ku from Akashi and from the sea.

Traffic

The district has an airport Kobe.

Railway lines they San'yo the JR West Shinkansen Shin- Kobe with stops at the train station, the JR Kobe Line as Streckienabschnitt the Tōkaidō Main Line, the Hankyu Kobe Main Line, the San'yo Denki tetsudō main line, the Kobe Kosoku tetsudō Tozai line, the Seishin - Yamate line and Kaigan line subway Kobe and the Kobe Port Shinkōtsū - Iceland - line.

The Hanshin Expressway No. 3 passing through the district, multiple to 7.2 km long tunnel under the Rokko in conjunction with the Sanroku bypass connecting Shin- Kobe with the northern and western hinterland.

Attractions

• Shinto shrines: Ikuta -jinja (生 田 神社)
• Minatogawa -jinja (凑 川 神社)
• Kitano Tenman -jinja (北野 天 満 神社)
• Sannomiya -jinja, place the smaller Kobe incident in 1868
• Kobe branch of the Nishi Hongan -ji, the Hongan -ji Kōbebetsuin (本 愿 寺 神 戸 别 院, also Modan -ji)

• Tairyū -ji (大 龙 寺) on the Futatabi Mountain
• Tokko - in (徳 光 院)

Education

In Chūō -ku are the universities: University of Hyogo Prefecture, Kobe Municipal Nursing College and Yamate University, Kobe.

Museums are the Municipal Museum Kobe in 1935, the earthquake museum Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Centre, the Municipal Science Museum for children and adolescents, the Seishōnenkagakukan with planetarium (神 戸 市立 青少年 科学馆often: Kobe Science Museum ) and the UCC Coffee Museum.