is one of nine 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 ...

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. It has an area of 26.89 km², and a population of 219,958 (2008). Tarumi is a suburban area in western Kobe, providing residential towns for commuters to downtown Kobe and even

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. The

Akashi Kaikyō Bridge The is a suspension bridge that links the city of Kobe on the Japanese island of Honshu and on Awaji Island. It is part of the Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway, and crosses the busy and turbulent Akashi Strait (''Akashi Kaikyō'' in Japanese). ...

starts from this ward toward Awaji Island. The area belonged to the

Akashi Domain was a Han (Japan), feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Harima Province in what is now the southern portion of modern-day Hyōgo Prefecture. It was centered around Akashi Castle, which is located in what i ...

Harima Province or Banshū (播州) was a province of Japan in the part of Honshū that is the southwestern part of present-day Hyōgo Prefecture. Harima bordered on Tajima, Tanba, Settsu, Bizen, and Mimasaka Provinces. Its capital was Himeji. During th ...

until the end of the

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. In 1899 the village of Tarumi was formed within Akashi District. In 1928 Tarumi village was renamed as a town. In July 1941, Tarumi merged into Kobe and became a part of Suma ward. The modern Tarumi ward was formed from the area of the former Tarumi town in 1946. In 1947 a further seven villages from Akashi District merged into Kobe and became a part of Tarumi until 1982 when they were split off into the separate Nishi ward. There is a port in the area, which is used by the coastal fishing industry, which is famous for (''Ammodytes personatus'', the

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—a species of

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) and

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Education

Kobe Korean Senior High School Kobe Korean Senior High School (神戸朝鮮高級学校 ''Kōbe Chōsen Kōkyūgakkō''; 고베조선고급학교) is a Korean heritage high school in Tarumi-ku, Kobe, Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacif ...

, a North Korea-aligned school, is in Tarumi-ku. Prior to its 1990 move to

Rokkō Island is a Artificial island, man-made island in Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan. Located in the southeast region of the Port of Kobe, the island has a rectangular shape and covers . The island's central region features a residential area, sepa ...

, Norwegian School was in Tarumi-ku.''The Japan Times Directory'', 1993. p
75
"Norwegian School, The 6-6-22 Shioya-cho, Tarumi-ku, Kobe 655"
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Official website of Tarumi-ku, Kobe
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