HyÅgo-ku, Kobe
Hyōgo -ku (Japanese兵 库区) is a municipality ( ku ) of Kobe. It is 14.54 km ² and with a little over 100,000 inhabitants, is the second smallest of the nine districts. However, the just under 7400 inhabitants per km ² third highest population density underlines its downtown character just west of the central district of Chūō -ku.
Naming
The old fishing village in present-day Hyōgo district was formed in the Meiji period along with the east Sannomiyas located at that temple Kobe the starting point for the establishment of foreign trade and port city of Kobe. Both the municipality, as well as the newly established Hyōgo Prefecture took the name of the fishing village.
Geography
Hyōgo has little mountainous, sparsely inhabited countryside and consists mainly of intra- urban residential and commercial area with extensive industrial and port facilities on the sea side. There you will find, among other great works of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries ( ship ) and Kawasaki Heavy Industries.
Traffic
Hyōgo is by the railway lines JR West JR Kobe Line as the stretch of San'yo Main Line, Wadamisaki line, Kobe Kosoku tetsudō Tozai Line, Namboku line Shintetsu Arima - line, the Seishin - Yamate Line and Kaigan Line subway Kobe, as well as well developed by the Hanshin expressway.
Like all areas south of the ridge behind north of downtown also suffered from earthquakes of Kobe Hyōgo 1995 great damage.
The tongue of land formed by Sanda rinses from Rokko Wadamisaki the port area in the Bay of Osaka. Within the factory premises of the company in 1863 Mitsubishi built a fortified battery which is a protected monument today.
The Water Museum of the city of Kobe. The building should reflect the German Renaissance style houses, among other things, an exhibition on the regional fresh water system.
Built for the Football World Cup 2002 in Japan and Korea "Wings Stadium ".
The Temple Nōfuku -ji with a large Buddha statue ( " Hyōgo Daibutsu - ").