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Theme Week Japan – Kawasaki

Saturday, 23 February 2019 - 12:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien
Category/Kategorie: General Reading Time:  3 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Kawasaki is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture. It is the 8th most populated city in Japan (including the Tokyo Metropolitan Area) and one of the main cities forming the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area. As of October 1, 2017, the city has an estimated population of 1,503,690, with 716,470 households. Kawasaki has seven wards: Asao-ku, Kawasaki-ku – administrative center, Miyamae-ku, Nakahara-ku, Saiwai-ku, Takatsu-ku and Tama-ku.

Fujitsu‘s Main Branch is located in Nakahara-ku. It was formerly Fujitsu’s headquarters. Kawasaki has several factories and development bases of the companies of heavy industry (e.g., JFE Group, Nippon Oil Corporation) and high technology (Fujitsu, NEC Corporation, Toshiba, Dell Japan and Sigma Corporation.

Among the places of interest are:

• Kanayama Shrine: Site of the annual Kanamara Matsuri (Festival Of The Steel Phallus).
• Kawasaki Daishi: the second most visited temple in the Kantō region
• Nihon Minka-en: a park with a collection of 20 minka, or traditional farmhouses, from various areas in Japan
• Koreatown: eastern Kawasaki has the second largest concentration of Koreans in Japan after Osaka. In 1997 it became the first municipality to allow non-Japanese nationals to take civil service employment.
• Todoroki Ryokuchi: athletic park
• Fujiko F. Fujio Museum: also known as Doraemon museum, opened on September 3, 2011, in Tama-ku Ward.
• Nakagawa stable: stable of professional sumo wrestler
• Kawasaki Warehouse: An amusement arcade whose aesthetic is inspired by the Kowloon Walled City.

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Read more on City of Kawasaki, japan-guide.com – Kawasaki, Wikitravel Kawasaki, Wikivoyage Kawasaki and Wikipedia Kawasaki. Learn more about the use of photos. To inform you about latest news most of the city, town or tourism websites offer a newsletter service and/or operate Facebook pages/Twitter accounts. In addition more and more destinations, tourist organizations and cultural institutions offer Apps for your Smart Phone or Tablet, to provide you with a mobile tourist guide (Smart Traveler App by U.S. Department of State - Weather report by weather.com - Global Passport Power Rank - Travel Risk Map - Democracy Index - GDP according to IMF, UN, and World Bank - Global Competitiveness Report - Corruption Perceptions Index - Press Freedom Index - World Justice Project - Rule of Law Index - UN Human Development Index - Global Peace Index - Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index). If you have a suggestion, critique, review or comment to this blog entry, we are looking forward to receive your e-mail at comment@wingsch.net. Please name the headline of the blog post to which your e-mail refers to in the subject line.

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