Tsuruga, Fukui

Tsuruga (Japanese敦 贺 市, -shi ) is a city in Fukui Prefecture in Japan.

Geography

Tsuruga is located south of Fukui and north of Kyoto on the Wakasa Bay.

History

The appointment to Shi took place on April 1, 1937 with the merger of Chō Tsuruga (敦 贺 町, -chō ) and the Mura Matsubara (松原 村, -mura ) in Tsuruga -gun (敦 贺 郡).

Attractions

Worth seeing is the Shinto shrine Kehi - jingū (气 比 神宫).

In Tsuruga there are about 20 bronze statues of characters and scenes from famous 1970s anime series Uchū Senkan Yamato and Galaxy Express 999 creator Leiji Matsumoto Although their was born somewhere else, they were built here as part of an exhibition of his work in 1999.

In Tsuruga located in the district Myojincho also the nuclear power plant Tsuruga, from the repeated radioactivity has leaked, and the disused ATR prototype joints and in the district of the breeder reactor Monju Shiraki.

Traffic

• Street: Hokuriku Expressway
• National Highway 8
• National Road 27
• National roads 161, 162, 476

• JR Hokuriku Main Line after Maibara and Joetsu
• JR Obama Line

Twinning

• Japan Mito, Japan, since 1965
• Flag of South Korea Donghae, South Korea, since 1981
• Russia Nakhodka, Russia, since 1982
• Japan Inuyama, Japan, since 1989
• China People's Republic of Taizhou, People's Republic of China, since 2001

Adjacent Cities and Towns

• Fukui Prefecture Mihama
• Minami- Echizen

• Takashima
• Yogo
• Nishiasai