Ikeda, Osaka
Ikeda
池田市 | |
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Ikeda (池田市, Ikeda-shi) is a
Geography
Ikeda is located in the northern part of the Osaka Plain in the northwestern part of Osaka Prefecture. The city area is elongated from north to south, with Satsukiyama in the Hokusetsu mountains in the north and a small basin along the Kuanji River, and an alluvial fan and the Inagawa plain in the south. A quiet residential area spreads out in the southern part of the city, and the townscape has been influenced by residential land development by Minoh Arima Electric Tramway (currently Hankyu Electric Railway).
Neighboring municipalities
Osaka Prefecture
- Toyono
- Minoh
- Toyonaka
- Itami
- Kawanishi
Climate
Ikeda has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Ikeda is 15.0 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1475 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.9 °C, and lowest in January, at around 3.7 °C.[2]
Demographics
Per Japanese census data,[3] the population of Ikeda has remained relatively steady over the past 40 years.
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1940 | 35,494 | — |
1950 | 45,177 | +27.3% |
1960 | 59,688 | +32.1% |
1970 | 94,333 | +58.0% |
1980 | 101,121 | +7.2% |
1990 | 104,218 | +3.1% |
2000 | 101,516 | −2.6% |
2010 | 104,171 | +2.6% |
History
The area of Ikeda was part of ancient
The village of Ikeda was established with the creation of the modern municipality system on April 1, 1889. It was raised to town status on August 10, 1935. The town was developed as a
On June 8, 2001, the Osaka school massacre occurred in this city. A man entered an elementary school and fatally stabbed eight children in the school. Many pupils have suffered post-traumatic stress disorder. To avoid flashback memories of the massacre and to improve school security, the buildings were remodeled and subsequently occupied in April 2004. On September 14, 2004, Mamoru Takuma was executed for the murders.
Government
Ikeda has a
Economy
The southwestern part of the city is home to the headquarters and factories of Daihatsu and Toyosu, the Ikeda office of Ricoh, and the Osaka Airport Factory of Daiichiya Baking. In addition, Goshun Sake Brewery, which inherited the tradition of Ikeda Sake, which was as famous as "Itami Sake" in the middle of the Edo period, is still in existence. Many Hankyu affiliated companies, including Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, have their headquarters and head offices here. There are also two regional wholesale markets, the Maruike Regional Wholesale Market and the Marukita Regional Wholesale Market, located near Osaka International Airport. The Hosokawa district of northern Ikeda is one of Japan's four major producers of garden trees, with a history of more than 400 years.
Major company headquarters
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- Daihatsu has maintained a factory since the late 1930s and the main office was established during the 1960s.[4]
- Ikeda Bank
- Toyosu Co Ltd, produces and sells rice confectionery and related products.
- Ricoh
- Goshun Sake Brewery which produces Itami sake
- Ikeda mandarin oranges have been grown in the region since the Meiji Era
Education
Ikeda has nine public elementary schools, five public middle schools and one combined elementary/middle school operated by the city government and three public high schools operated by the Osaka Prefectural Department of Education. There are also one elementary, one middle and one high school operated by the national government. There is also one private high school.
Transportation
Railway
Highway
- Chūgoku Expressway Chūgoku-Ikeda Interchange
- Hanshin Expressway Route 11 Ikeda Route
- National Route 171
- National Route 173
- National Route 176
- National Route 423
- National Route 477
Sister cities
- Launceston, Australia (1965)
- Suzhou, China (1981)
Local attractions
Ikeda boasts several cultural attractions: the
Notable people from Ikeda
- Ichirō Nagai, former voice actor
- anime soundtracks)
- Japanese popsinger
- Yūko Tanaka, actress
- Kamon Iizumi, governor
- professional wrestler, currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling(NJPW)
- Nintendo EPD)
- sumo wrestler
- Daidō Moriyama, Japanese photographer
- Shigeo Okumura, Japanese professional wrestler, currently based in Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)
- Yuko Nakanishi, Japanese Butterfly swimmer
- Ineko Arima, Japanese film actress
- Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd., the inventor of instant noodles and the creator of the brands Top Ramen and Cup Noodles)
- Sasebo, Nagasakiand raised in Ikeda, Osaka)
- mangaka (The World God Only Knows)
- classical pianist
- Kazue Akita, Japanese singer and former member of J-pop girlgroup SDN48
- House of Councillors in the Diet(national legislature)
- Yoshiomi Tamai, Japanese activist, philanthropist, and educator (founder of Ashinaga)
References
- ^ "Ikeda city official statistics" (in Japanese). Japan.
- ^ Ikeda climate data
- ^ Ikeda population statistics
- ^ "Corporate Info Archived 2010-01-27 at the Wayback Machine." Daihatsu. Retrieved on February 5, 2010.
- ^ "Japan Airlines Archived 2011-10-10 at the Wayback Machine." oneworld. Retrieved on February 5, 2010. "Operational headquarters is located at Itami Airport, Osaka and the carrier has 400 employees."
- ^ "会社概要." JAL Express. Retrieved on February 5, 2010.
- ^ "株式会社ジャル エクスプレス 大阪本社 Archived 2010-08-15 at the Wayback Machine." Mapple. Retrieved on February 5, 2010.
- ^ "国際交流". city.ikeda.osaka.jp (in Japanese). Ikeda. Archived from the original on August 12, 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
External links
- Ikeda City website (in Japanese)