From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki
Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki
Kawasaki Address 8-banchi Higashida, Kawasaki-ku Kawasaki-
川崎 shi, Kanagawa-ken
210-8570
— Ward of Kawasaki —
Website Kawasaki Ward Office
川崎区• Kawasaki-ku
Kawasaki-ku (川崎区) is one of the seven wards of the
city of Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of
2010, the ward had an estimated population of 216,826
and a density of 5,530 persons per km². The total area
was 39.21 km². Kawasaki-ku has the home to the second
Flag largest Koreatown in Japan.
Geography
Kawasaki Ward is located in northeastern Kanagawa Pre-
fecture, in the northeast portion of the city of Kawasaki,
bordering on the Tama River and Tokyo to the north and
Tokyo Bay to the south and east. Much of the land area of
Location of Kawasaki in Kanagawa
the Ward is reclaimed land
Surrounding municipalities
• Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki
• Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama
• Ōta-ku, Tokyo
History
Under the Nara period Ritsuryō system, what is now
Kawasaki Ward became part of Tachibana District
Musashi Province. In the Edo period, it was administered
as tenryō territory controlled directly by the Tokugawa
shogunate, but administered through various hatamoto,
and prospered as Kawasaki-juku, a post station on the
Kawasaki Tokaido highway connecting Edo with Kyoto. After the
Meiji Restoration, the area urbanized with the develop-
Coordinates: 35°31′46″N 139°42′12″E / 35.52944°N ment of Kawasaki Station on the Tokaido Main Line and
139.70333°E / 35.52944; 139.70333Coordinates: 35°31′46″N became a center for heavy industry. The area was largely
139°42′12″E / 35.52944°N 139.70333°E / 35.52944; 139.70333 destroyed by the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923 and
Country Japan during American bombing during World War II. Kawasaki
Region Kantō Ward was established with the division of the city of
Prefecture Kanagawa Kawasaki into wards on April 1, 1972. Long associated
City Kawasaki with grime, labor unrest, organized crime and pollution-
Established April 1, 1972 related diseases, the local government undertook exten-
sive efforts in the 1990s to revamp the area image.
Area
– Total 39.21 km2 (15.1 sq mi)
Population (March 2010) Economy
– Total 216,826 The economy of Kawasaki Ward continues to be dominat-
– Density 5,530/km2 (14,322.6/sq mi) ed by industry.
Time zone Japan Standard Time (UTC+9) • Fuji Electric
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki
• JFE Steel - Operates several major plants near Tokyo • Kanagawa Rinkai Railway (freight only)
Bay. JFE’s main plant for eastern Japan is located on
the border of Kawasaki-ku and Tsurumi-ku, Road
Yokohama. • Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line
• Mitsubishi Chemical • Bayshore Route
• Showa Electric • Japan National Route 15 (Dai-ichi Keihin)
• Showa Shell Oil • Japan National Route 132
• Tokyo Electric Power • Route 357 (Japan)
• Kao Corporation • Route 409 (Japan)
• Ajinomoto • Kanagawa Prefectural Road 1 (Shuto Expressway)
• Kanagawa Prefectural Road 6 (Shuto Expressway)
Transportation • Kanagawa Prefectural Road 9
• Kanagawa Prefectural Road 101
Rail • Kanagawa Prefectural Road 140
• JR East – Tokaido Main Line
• Kawasaki Station Local attractions
• JR East – Nambu Line • Kawasaki Daishi
• Kawasaki Station
• JR East – Nambu Branch Line
• Hatchōnawate - Kawasaki-Shimmachi - Hama- Noted people from Kawasaki
Kawasaki
• JR East – Tsurumi Line
Ward
• Musashi-Shiraishi Station - Hama-Kawasaki - • Kaoru Abe, musician
Shōwa - Ōgimachi • Hirokazu Ibata, professional baseball player
• JR East – Tsurumi Branch Line • Kyu Sakamoto, singer
• Ōkawa
• Keihin Electric Express Railway - Keikyū Main Line
• Keikyū Kawasaki - Hatchōnawate
External links
• Keihin Electric Express Railway - Keikyū Daishi Line • Official Website (Japanese)
• Keikyū Kawasaki - Minatochō - Suzukichō -
Kawasaki-Daishi - Higashi-Monzen - Sangyō-Dōro References
- Kojimashinden
• Tōkaidō Freight Line (freight only)
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