Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki
Nakahara
中原区 | |
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| Nakahara Ward | |
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UTC+9 (Japan Standard Time) | |
| - Flower | Pansy |
| Address | 3-245 Kosugi-cho, Nakahara-ku Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken 211-8570 |
| Website | Nakahara Ward Office |
Nakahara-ku (中原区) is one of the 7 wards of the city of Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of November 2014, the ward had an estimated population of 244,565[1] and a density of 16,637 persons per km². The total area was 14.70 km².
Geography
Nakahara Ward is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture, in the center portion of the city of Kawasaki, bordering on Tokyo to the north and Yokohama to the south.
Surrounding municipalities
- Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki
- Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki
- Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
- Ōta-ku, Tokyo
- Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama
History
Archaeologists have found numerous
tenryō territory controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate, but administered through various hatamoto. After the Meiji Restoration, the area was divided into Nakahawa Village and Sumiyoshi Village within Tachibana District in the new Kanagawa Prefecture
on April 1, 1889. The two villages merged in 1925 to form the town of Nakahara. The town was annexed by the neighboring city of Kawasaki in August 1933. In April 1972, the area became Nakahara Ward with the division of the city of Kawasaki into wards.
Economy
Nakahara Ward is largely a regional commercial center and
]Transportation
Railway
- JR East – Nambu Line
- JR East – Yokosuka Line
- Tōkyū Meguro Line
- Shin-Maruko - Musashi-Kosugi - Motosumiyoshi
The
Tōkaidō Shinkansen
passes through Nakahara-ku but does not stop.
Highway
- National Route 466(No. 3 Keihin Road, as "Daisan-Keihin" (第三京浜))
- Kanagawa Prefectural Road 2
- Kanagawa Prefectural Road 14
- Kanagawa Prefectural Road 45
- Kanagawa Prefectural Road 111
Local attractions
- Todoroki Athletics Stadium
Education
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- Nippon Medical School – Shin-Maruko Campus
Municipal junior high schools:[4]
Municipal elementary schools:[5]
- Gyokusen (玉川小学校)
- Higashi Sumiyoshi (東住吉小学校)
- Hirama (平間小学校)
- Ida (井田小学校)
- Imai (今井小学校)
- Kami Maruko (上丸子小学校)
- Kariyado (苅宿小学校)
- Kizuki (木月小学校)
- Kosugi (小杉小学校)
- Miyauchi (宮内小学校)
- Nakahara (中原小学校)
- Nishi Maruko (西丸子小学校)
- Ogayato (大谷戸小学校)
- Oto (大戸小学校)
- Shimogawara (下河原小学校)
- Shimokodanaka (下小田中小学校)
- Shimonumabe (下沼部小学校)
- Shinjo (新城小学校)
- Sumiyoshi (住吉小学校)
References
- ^ "中原区の人口・世帯". Kawasaki City. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ^ "Contact." Fujitsu. Retrieved on February 4, 2009.
- ^ "Company Profile." Fujitsu. January 19, 1998. Retrieved on May 19, 2009.
- ^ "中原区の中学校一覧". Kawasaki Combined Education Center. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
- ^ "中原区の小学校一覧". Kawasaki Combined Education Center. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
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