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
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