Higashinada-ku, Kobe
Higashinada -ku (Japanese东滩 区, dt " District East Nada " ) is a municipality ( ku ) of Kobe.
Geography
Higashinada has around 4 km of paved coast with three small and one large offshore artificial island and ranges in the north to the 931 m high peak point of the Rokko zoom. Grown Historically, the most important present-day district Mikage, Sumiyoshi and Okamoto, while Rokkōmichi only in the postwar period experienced a strong development and Rokko Iceland was not completed until the early 1990s.
History
The area was in the Edo period, first on Han Amagasaki and changed with the development of so-called Nadagōgō - area, excellent for the sake manufacturing belt of East Nishinomiya to this Hyōgo -ku, for rich immediate area ( tenryō ) of the Tenno. In 1889 (武库 郡) were in the district of Muko the town ( chō ) Mikage and the villages (son ) Sumiyoshi, Uozaki, Honjō and Yamamoto formed.
The completion of the Hanshin Main Line between Osaka and Kobe in 1905 brought the development of the area a big boost, which is called Hanshinkan - modernism.
In July 1938, the area experienced a particularly large flood on March 17 destroyed in 1945 air raids on the Kobe City area. After the war, tried both the city of Kobe in the west, and the city of Ashiya as the eastern neighbor to an amalgamation of five independent administrative regions. Also up for discussion was the formation of an independent city Kōnan.
On April 1, 1950, first came Mikage, Sumiyoshi and Uozaki in the city of Kobe. The claim to the traditional and Sake nationwide excellent name Nada meaning " [to ] open [n ] See", which the Accession field would have worn more than other municipalities in the Hanshin area, rightly, could not be realized because there is a gave the district of that name already and with the planned name change was ultimately rejected. So it came to naming Higashinada.
On October 10 of the year merged Honjō and Motoyama and the district joined. Rokko in 1993 Iceland was completed.
The earthquake in Kobe in 1995 taught in Higashinada in direct exposure to the greatest damage and demanded with 1471 deaths in the comparison of the districts most people life (see: Nagata -ku ). Reasons were partly the type of building and the proportion of the district at the area with the strongest shocks. The latter was also due to the area as previous floods and landslides and caused thereby lower strength again piled plots. As a result of the earthquake in 1995, the population of the district of 190,000 reduced 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 the route section of the Tōkaidō Main Line, Hankyu Kobe Main Line, Hanshin Denki tetsudō Hanshin Main Line in East-West direction, the People Mover Rokko Liner from JR Sumiyoshi Station, Hanshin Uozumi station and Rokko Iceland and the Hanshin highways # 3 and # 5 very well developed. Commuters reach Sannomiya in less than half an hour, Umeda in Osaka in little more than half an hour.
Attractions
- Otomezuka - Kofun (处女 冢 古坟) in Mikage
- Honsumiyoshi -jinja (本 住 吉 神社)
- Okamoto Plum Garden (冈本 梅林 公园)
- Danjiri Matsuri ( Moving in May)
Education
In Higashinada -ku are the universities Kōnan University (甲 南 大学), Kōnan - Women's University (甲 南 女子 大学) Pharmaceutical University Kobe (神 戸 薬 科 大学), International University of Kobe (神 戸 国际 大学), and the English-language International School Canadian Academy.
Museums and galleries are the Kobe Fashion Museum, Hakutsuru Gallery (白鹤 美术馆, Hakutsuru Bijutsukan ) of the large Sakeherstellers Hakutsuru that Kobe Shiritsu Koiso Kinen Bijutsukan (神 戸 市立 小 矶 记念 美术馆, Eng. Kobe City Koiso Memorial Museum of Art), the Kosetsu Gallery (香雪 美术馆, Kosetsu Bijutsukan ) and the Sera- Gallery (世 良 美术馆, Sera Bijutsukan ).