Nagata-ku, Kobe
Nagata -ku (Japanese长 田 区) is a municipality ( ku ) of Kobe. With 11.46 km ² and just over 100,000 inhabitants, both from the surface and from the Population forth the smallest of the nine districts, but has almost 9,000 inhabitants per km ² the highest population density.
Geography
The most closely built quite flat Nagata -ku is in the south of the city, neither a larger share of the Rokko mountain ridge behind the downtown area is still significant green spaces.
Nagata consists mainly of residential areas of lower income strata of the population. In the area to scatter many small and medium -sized enterprises. Among other productions, there are a lot of shoe manufacturers in Nagata. The ocean side of Nagata is exclusively industrial (including gas tank of Osaka Gas) and the port area. Even after the catastrophic destruction caused by the earthquake in Kobe in 1995, the shoe production Nagata in Japan is a leader.
History
The " disaster Nagata " did not happen in 1995 directly by the quake, but indirectly: In Nagata once spread resulting fires because of the older and less fire- safe houses densely built-up urban area particularly quickly. Catastrophic consequences had the carelessness of the competent authorities, who had not filled the cisterns of the city after a drought summer of 1994, so that eventually advancing firefighters, without being able to rely on functioning water lines, each only a few minutes themselves could brought with water splash and then the burning had to watch whole neighborhoods.
The loss of population also due to lack of living space could be stopped by reconstruction measures only partly because they were progressing in accordance with the cash situation Kobes (Example southern Shinnagata, see also Kobe airport) only reluctantly.
Traffic
Nagata is by the railway lines JR West JR Kobe Line as the stretch of San'yo Main Line, Kobe Kosoku tetsudō Tozai Line, San'yo Denki tetsudō main line, Shintetsu Arima - line, the Seishin - Yamate Line and Kaigan Line of Metro Kobe and well developed by the Hanshin highway No. 31.
Attractions
One attraction is the Nagata Shrine (长 田 神社, Nagata -jinja ).