Minuma-ku (Saitama)
Minuma -ku (Japanese见 沼 区) is a municipality ( ku ) of the Japanese city of Saitama.
History
As an independent city with over 450,000 inhabitants Ōmiya was (大 宫 市, -shi) to 2001, the administrative headquarters of Saitama Prefecture on Honshu, the main island of Japan. On 1 May 2001 Ōmiya as a city ( shi) was dissolved and merged with Urawa, Yono and Iwatsuki the new prefectural capital Saitama, in the former city Ōmiya forms the northern districts Ōmiya, Kita, Nishi and Minuma.
Traffic
Road
- National road 17 to Tōkyō or Niigata
- Tohoku Expressway Aomori
Railway
- JR Utsunomiya Line, Railway Station Higashiomiya