Niigata, Niigata
Niigata (Japanese新泻 市, -shi) is a city and the administrative center of the prefecture Niigata on Honshu, the main island of Japan. Niigata is located at the mouth of the Shinano River and is one of the largest port cities along the coast to the Sea of Japan.
Niigata has 809 708 inhabitants and is located 300 km north of Tōkyō.
The region is an oil and natural gas production area, so there are also oil refineries. In addition, the paper and food industries as well as mechanical engineering and shipbuilding playing an important economic role.
History
After a long history as a port city of Niigata became a free port after the Meiji Restoration. The city government was established in 1889.
Niigata was in 1945 next to Kokura and of course Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb on the list of possible targets, but remained spared.
In 1949 the University of Niigata was established. On June 16, 1964 Niigata was destroyed in large part by an earthquake of magnitude 7.3. Parts of the World Cup 2002 held in Niigata.
On January 1, 2001, the district town Kurosaki (黒 埼 町) from the district Nishikanbara was incorporated to Niigata. 21 March 2005 was followed by 12 other communities: the district-free cities ( shi) Niitsu (新 津市) Shirone (白 根 市), Toyosaka (豊 栄 市), and the towns ( machi ) Kosudo (小 须 戸 町), Yokogoshi (横越 町 ) and Kameda (亀 田 町), depending from which, after the district Nakakanbara, the city Nishikawa, the villages ( mura ) Iwamuro (岩 室 村), Ajikata (味 方 村), Katahigashi (泻 东村) Tsukigata (月 泻 村) and Nakanokuchi each of County Nishikanbara, and on 10 October the city Maki (巻 町) from the latter county.
Politics and Administration
In the third term mayor of Niigata is the last in 2010 with the support of the three largest parties (LDP, DPJ and Kōmeitō ) re-elected Akira Shinoda. In the 56 -member city council were in the last election in April 2011, 26 MPs -Party, the largest party, the LDP with eleven mandates. Independent and partisan MPs are located in different fractions, of which the greatest with ten members of the Club and the Shin Niigata Shimin Club ( " New Citizen Club " ) are (as of 2011).
Boroughs
As Seirei shitei toshi ( " city by government decree " ) is Niigata divided into eight districts ( ku ):
- Akiha -ku (green)
- Chūō -ku (dark blue)
- Higashi -ku (light blue)
- Kita- ku ( blue-green)
- Kōnan -ku ( yellow-green)
- Minami -ku ( cyan)
- Nishi -ku (orange)
- Nishikan -ku ( ocher )
Traffic
The Niigata train station is the terminus of the Joetsu Shinkansen from Ueno and therefore provides for the arriving of Tokyo visitors the most convenient access to the coast of the Japanese sea as in 1982, inaugurated route owes its existence to the personal efforts of former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei whose constituency in the Niigata Prefecture was.
Approximately 8 kilometers north-east of the city center of Niigata airport. Among other things, there is a route to the Russian city of Vladivostok.
The port facilities consisting of the old eastern harbor and the newer West Harbor are among the 23 " major ports " of Japan.
- Train JR Joetsu Shinkansen
- JR Joetsu Line
- JR Shin-etsu Main Line
- JR Uetsu Main Line
- JR Echigo Line
- JR Hakushin - line
- Road Kanetsu highway
- National Road 7
- National Highway 8
- National Road 17
Sports
Niigata is the home of the football club Albirex Niigata in the J. League, whose games are played in the Tōhoku Denryoku Stadium.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Aquirax Aida, Japanese music critic, promoter and producer
- Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese comic artist ( mangaka )
- Takeshi Obata, manga artist
- Makoto Kobayashi, manga artist
- Shinji Mizushima, manga artist
- Takashi Amano, photographer and aquarist
- Kunio Maekawa, Architect
- Sachiko Kobayashi, enka singer and actress
- Yoko Ishida, singer
- Ango Sakaguchi, writer