Midori-ku (Saitama)

Midori -ku (Japanese绿 区, dt, green district ') is a municipality ( ku ) of the Japanese city of Saitama.

History

As an independent city with over 500,000 inhabitants Urawa was until 2001 the administrative headquarters of Saitama Prefecture on Honshu, the main island of Japan. On 1 May 2001 Urawa was dissolved as a city (shi) and merged with Ōmiya, Yono and Iwatsuki the new prefectural capital Saitama, in the former city of Urawa the southern districts Sakura ( cherry '), Urawa, Minami (' South ' ) and Midori forms.

Traffic

Road

  • Tohoku Expressway Aomori
  • National road 17 to Tōkyō or Niigata

Train

570825
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