KÅhoku-ku, Yokohama
Kohoku -ku (Japanese港 北区) is one of 18 municipalities of the large Japanese city of Yokohama.
Geography
The district lies to the north of Yokohama, where it has four neighboring districts: Tsuzuki -ku in the West, Tsurumi -ku in the east, and Midori -ku and Kanagawa -ku in the south. In the north and north-east Kohoku -ku borders the districts Takatsu, Nakahara and Saiwai the city of Kawasaki ( Kanagawa ). The district has a total of 338 914 Kohoku inhabitants, making it the most populous among all districts of Japanese Seirei shitei toshi ( designated by the government Japanese cities with more than 500,000 inhabitants). The 23 wards of Tokyo have a special status and are not among the districts in this sense.
The are Tokyu Toyoko Line Yokohama and lie along residential and business district. In addition, can be found in Kohoku -ku also green areas with parks citizens.
Although the name of the character "港" contains the port means that the district has no harbor. The name refers only to the fact that the district is north of the port of Yokohama. In Kohoku -ku, there are two scale irrigation artificial lakes: the Kikunasee and Shinoharasee. In addition, three rivers flow through the district. The Tsurumi, which rises in Machida and flows into Tokyo Bay, in the district of Yokohama Tsurumi, is the largest one and one of the " rivers first order" ( Ikkyu kasen ), which holds the Ministry of Land and Transport is particularly important.
Education
In Kohoku are two campus of Keio University.