Tarumi-ku, Kobe

Tarumi -ku (Japanese垂 水 区) is a municipality ( ku ) of Kobe.

Geography

Tarumi -ku is by the sea and is the westernmost city districts. His long fortified coastline extends to the city Akashi. Inland, Tarumi -ku is built on hilly and almost everywhere.

Traffic

Between the surveys and the sea, the JR Kobe Line, as stretch the San'yo Main Line of JR West, the main line of San'yo Denki tetsudō, but also the national road number 2 right on the coast along their paths. Tracks

Attractions

The narrowest part of the Akashi Strait (明石 海峡, Akashi Kaikyo ) lies in the southwest Tarumis and also serves as the northern bridgehead of the Akashi - Kaikyo Bridge. It is the bridge with the longest free-floating overvoltage in the world. Azur Maiko was located close to it created a system with artificial beaches, which had to be repeatedly closed due to drifting of the sand is poured.

At sea near the big bridge is also the largest Outlet West Japan, Porto Bazar.

Tarumi -ku is known in the area for Ikanago.

Among other features

• The Goshikizuka - kofun
• James Hill, a foreigner settlement from the 1930s of around 60 houses on a beautifully located hill overlooking the Bay of Osaka, which goes back to the Englishman Ernest William James.
• The shrine Watatsumi -jinja (海 神社)