Urawa-ku (Saitama)

Urawa -ku (Japanese浦 和 区) is a municipality ( ku ) of the Japanese city of Saitama. Urawa is located on the Arakawa river near Tokyo, where a large part of the population works.

Economically significant in Urawa is the textile industry.

In Germany Urawa is mainly known by the Urawa Red Diamonds. In the football club from the Japanese J. League, Vice- Champion of 2004 and 2005, already many German stood as a player or coach under contract, for example, Guido Buchwald Holger Osieck or.

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 ( 'green' ) forms.

Traffic

Road

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

Train

  • JR Takasaki Line, Urawa Station, Ueno (Tokyo) or Takasaki
  • JR Utsunomiya Line, Urawa Station, Utsunomiya and Aomori
  • JR Keihin - Tohoku line Urawa Station, Yokohama
  • JR Saikyo Line
  • JR Musashino Line to Fuchu and Funabashi
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