is one of 9
wards of
Kobe
Kobe ( ; , ), officially , is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. With a population of around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's List of Japanese cities by population, seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Port of Toky ...
,
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
. It has an area of 28.46 km
2, and a population of 127,602 with 74,814
household
A household consists of one or more persons who live in the same dwelling. It may be of a single family or another type of person group. The household is the basic unit of analysis in many social, microeconomic and government models, and is im ...
s as of January 31, 2012. The ward was formed from the 1980 merger of the former
Fukiai-ku () and
Ikuta-ku ().
The
Consulate-General of Panama in Kobe is located on the eighth floor of the Moriyama Building in Chūō-ku. Also in the ward are the headquarters of
Sumitomo Rubber Industries,
Sysmex Corporation, a global medical devices manufacturing company and
TOA Corporation, an electronics company.
Places of note
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Port of Kobe
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Port Island
is an artificial island in Chūō-ku, Kōbe, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Japan. It was constructed between 1966-1980 (Phase 1) and 1987-2009 (Phase 2) at the Port of Kobe, and officially opened with an trade fair, exposition called "Portopia '81." It now ho ...
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Kobe Port Tower
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Harborland
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Kobe Airport
Education
International schools:
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Kobe Chinese School, a mainland China-oriented Chinese international school
*Kobe Korean Elementary and Junior High School (
神戸朝鮮初中級学校), a
North Korea-oriented Korean international schoolウリハッキョ一覧
(). Chongryon. Retrieved on October 14, 2015.
Gallery
References
External links
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Wards of Kobe