Amagasaki

Amagasaki 尼崎
Core ceety
尼崎市 · Amagasaki
Amagasaki Cultural Zone
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Location of Amagasaki in Hyōgo Prefectur
Coordinates: 34°44′N 135°24′E
Kintra	Japan
Region	Kansai
Prefectur	Hyōgo Prefectur
Govrenment
• Mayor	Kazumi Inamura (Greens Japan)
Area
• Total	49.77 km2 (19.22 sq mi)
Population  (2012)
• Total	450,244
• Density	9010/km2 (23,300/sq mi)
Symbols
• Tree	Dogwood
• Flouer	Oleander
Time zone	UTC+9 (Japan Staundart Time)
City Hall Address	1-23-1 Higashinanamatsu-chō, Amagasaki-shi, Hyōgo-ken 660-8501
Website	Ceety o Amagasaki

Amagasaki (尼崎市, Amagasaki-shi) is an industrial ceety locatit in Hyōgo Prefectur, Japan. The ceety wis foondit on Aprile 1, 1916. Its population is aroond 460,000, belaw its peak o ower 554,000 in 1971.^{[citation needit]}

History

Durin the Edo period, the Amagasaki Domain haed its admeenistrative heidquarters at Amagasaki Castle here.

Notable residents

Amagasaki is the hometoun o comedy duo Downtown starns Masatoshi Hamada an Hitoshi Matsumoto. It is an aa the hometoun o Formula 1 driver Kamui Kobayashi, Chiyu, the bassist o SuG, author Koushun Takami an Heath, bassist o X Japan. Toshiaki Nishioka, a umwhile warld champion boxer, is an aa frae this aurie.

Transportation

Railways

• Wast Japan Railway Company
  • Tōkaidō Main Line (JR Kobe Line) Amagasaki Station (JR) - Tachibana Station
  • Fukuchiyama Line (JR Takarazuka Line) Amagasaki Station (JR) - Tsukaguchi Station (JR) - Inadera Station
  • JR Tōzai Line Amagasaki Station (JR)
• Hankyu Railway
  • Kobe Line Sonoda Station - Tsukaguchi Station (Hankyu) - Mukonoso Station
  • Itami Line Tsukaguchi Station (Hankyu)
• Hanshin Electric Railway
  • Main Line Kuise Station - Daimotsu Station - Amagasaki Station (Hanshin) - Deyashiki Station - Amagasaki Center Pool mae Station - Mukogawa Station
  • Hanshin Namba Line Daimotsu Station - Amagasaki Station (Hanshin)

A commuter train derailed on the Fukuchiyama Line near Amagazaki on Aprile 25, 2005, resultin in mair nor 100 dead an 550 injured. See Amagasaki rail crash for details.

JR Amagasaki Station

Roads

• Route 2, Route 43, Route 171
• Expressways
  • Meishin Expressway
  • Hanshin Expressway Kobe Route (3)
  • Hanshin Expressway Wangan Route (5)
• Yamate Road

Politics o Amagasaki

• Amagasaki mayoral election, 2002

On the 22 o November, 2010 Kazumi Inamura Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine acame the first popularly electit Greens Japan Mayor Archived 2013-09-05 at the Wayback Machine as well as the first popularly electit female mayor o the ceety wi 54% o the vote.

Economy

Amagasaki is a major pairt o the Hanshin Industrial Region. Local businesses include manufacturers such as Osaka Titanium Technologies. The value o manufactured guids shipments in Amagasaki wis 1,288 billion yen in 2004. See an aa Hanshin Industrial Region.

Sister ceeties

• Augsburg, Germany - syne Aprile 7, 1959
• Anshan, Cheenae - syne Februar 2, 1983 (friendship ceety)

Freemit airtins

• Offeecial wabsteid (in Japanese)
• Rediscover Amagasaki Archived 2007-02-04 at the Wayback Machine (in Inglis)