23 February 2019 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Rubric: General
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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 .
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22 February 2019 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Rubric: General
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Osaka is a
designated city in the
Kansai region . It is the capital city of
Osaka Prefecture and the largest component of the
Keihanshin Metropolitan Area, the
second largest metropolitan area in Japan and among the
largest in the world with over 19 million inhabitants. Osaka will host
Expo 2025 . The city’s west side is open to
Osaka Bay , and is otherwise completely surrounded by more than ten satellite cities, all of them in
Osaka Prefecture , with one exception: the city of
Amagasaki , belonging to
Hyōgo Prefecture , in the northwest.
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21 February 2019 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Rubric: General
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Fukuoka is the capital
city of
Fukuoka Prefecture , situated on the northern shore of
Japanese island
Kyushu . It is the most populous city on the island, followed by
Kitakyushu . It is the largest city and metropolitan area west of
Keihanshin . The city was designated on April 1, 1972, by
government ordinance . Greater Fukuoka, with a population of 2.5 million people, is part of the heavily industrialized
Fukuoka–Kitakyushu zone.
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20 February 2019 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Rubric: General
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Kobe is the
sixth-largest city in
Japan and the capital city of
Hyōgo Prefecture . It is located on the southern side of the main island of
Honshū , on the north shore of
Osaka Bay and about 30 km (19 mi) west of
Osaka . With a population around 1.5 million, the city is part of the
Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and
Kyoto .
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19 February 2019 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Rubric: General
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Yokohama is the second
largest city in Japan by population, after
Tokyo , and the most populous
municipality of Japan . It is the capital
city of
Kanagawa Prefecture . It lies on
Tokyo Bay , south of Tokyo, in the
Kantō region of the main island of
Honshu . It is a major commercial hub of the
Greater Tokyo Area .
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18 February 2019 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Rubric: General , Theme Weeks
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Japan (
Nippon or
Nihon , literally “State of Japan”) is an
island country in
East Asia . Located in the
Pacific Ocean , it lies off the eastern coast of the
Asian continent and stretches from the
Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the
East China Sea and the
Philippine Sea in the south. The
kanji that make up
Japan’s name mean “sun origin”, and it is often called the “Land of the Rising Sun”.
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