Kakogawa, Hyōgo

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Kakogawa 加古川市
Special city
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Kakogawa (加古川市, Kakogawa-shi) is a city located in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 May 2022^[update], the city had an estimated population of 258,497 in 108,688 households and a population density of 1,900 persons per km².^[1] The total area of the city is 138.48 square kilometres (53.47 sq mi).

Geography

Kakogawa located in southern Hyōgo prefecture, in the eastern part of the Harima Plain with central city area spreading over the east bank of the

• Akashi
• Takasago
• Himeji
• Kasai
• Miki
• Ono
• Harima
• Inami
• Harima

Climate

Kakogawa has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Kakogawa is 15.4 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1527 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.5 °C, and lowest in January, at around 4.9 °C.^[2]

Demographics

Per Japanese census data,^[3] the population of Kakogawa rose rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s and has now leveled.

History

The area of Kakogawa is part of ancient

Kakogawa is located within the Hanshin Industrial Area and Harima Seaside Industrial Area and is a center for heavy industry, including steel mills, refineries and chemical processing. Kobe Steel's Kakogawa Steel Works is a major employer. Due to its transportation connections and location, with easy access to Himeji (about 10 minutes), Kobe (about 30 minutes) and Osaka (about 50 minutes) by train, numerous bedroom communities have developed for commuters to Kobe and Osaka.

Education

Kakogawa has 28 public elementary schools and 12 public middle schools operated by the city government and six public high schools operated by the Hyōgo Prefectural Department of Education. Hyogo University is located in Kakogawa. The city also operates one special education school for the handicapped. The nursing school of University of Hyogo is located in Akashi.

• Hyogo Agricultural College (1951)

Transportation

Railway

• Higashi-Kakogawa - Kakogawa

JR West – Kakogawa Line

• Kakogawa - Hioka - Kanno - Yakujin

Sanyo Electric Railway - Main Line

• Befu - Hamanomiya - Onoenomatsu

Highways

• San'yō Expressway
• National Route 2 (Kobe, Okayama, Hiroshima, Shimonoseki)
• National Route 250 (Kobe, Okayama)

Local attractions

• National Treasures of Japan
  .
• Saijō Kofun Cluster, National Historic Site

Special Dishes

Katsumeshi is a specialty of Kakogawa. The dish is essentially a beef cutlet served on top of plate of rice with demi-glace sauce.

Notable people from Kakogawa

• Shinsaku Himeda, Japanese cinematographer.
• tarento, and presenter
• Kōhei Funae, Japanese professional shogi player ranked 6-dan
• Juri Hara, Japanese professional baseball player (pitcher, Tokyo Yakult Swallows)
• television personality
• video game artist (Shakugan no Shana
  )
• Hiromitsu Kanki, Japanese former professional shogi player who achieved the rank of 7-dan
• Toshiaki Kubo, Japanese professional shogi player ranked 9-dan
• professional boxer
• Japanese actress
• Sachi Tainaka, Japanese singer and J-pop idol
• news anchor
• Japanese voice actor
• Japanese actress
• Tomomi Ogawa
  , musician

See also

• Higashi-Kakogawa

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kakogawa, Hyogo.

• Kakogawa City official website (in Japanese)
• Geographic data related to Kakogawa, Hyōgo at OpenStreetMap

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