Kakogawa, Hyōgo

Kakogawa (加古川市, Kakogawa-shi) is a city located in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on June 15, 1950. It is located near the point where the Kako River flows into the Seto Inland Sea.

Kakogawa 加古川市
Special city
Kakogawa City Montage
Flag Emblem
Location of Kakogawa in Hyōgo

Kakogawa Location in Japan
Coordinates: 34°45′N 134°50′E
Country	Japan
Region	Kansai
Prefecture	Hyōgo
Government
• Mayor	Yasuhiro Okada
Area
• Total	138.51 km² (53.48 sq mi)
Population (September 1, 2016)
• Total	266,433
• Density	1,923.98/km² (4,983.1/sq mi)
Symbols
• Tree	Japanese Black Pine
• Flower	Azalea
Time zone	UTC+9 (JST)
City hall address	2000 Kakogawachō Kitazaike, Kakogawa-shi Hyōgo-ken 675-8501
Website	www.city.kakogawa.lg.jp

As of September 1, 2016, the city has an estimated population of 266,433 and a population density of 1,923.98 persons per km². The total area is 138.51 km².

The city offers easy access to Himeji (about 10 minutes), Kobe (about 30 minutes) and Osaka (about 50 minutes) by JR Line.

The city currently has a sister city relationship with Maringá, in Brazil, and Auckland, in New Zealand.

Economy

Kobe Steel's Kakogawa Steel Works

Culture

Architecture

Kakurin-ji - Taishidō was completed in 1112, and Main Hall was completed in 1397. Both are National Treasures of Japan.

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.

Transportation

Railway

JR West
- JR Kobe Line (Sanyo Main Line): Higashi-Kakogawa - Kakogawa
- Kakogawa Line: Kakogawa - Hioka - Kanno - Yakujin
Sanyo Electric Railway: Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line
- Befu - Hamanomiya - Onoenomatsu

Notable people

Tomonori Jinnai, comedian

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kakogawa, Hyogo.

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

Hyōgo Prefecture
Kobe (capital)
Wards of Kobe	Chūō Higashinada Hyōgo Kita Nada Nagata Nishi Suma Tarumi
Core cities	Akashi Amagasaki Himeji Nishinomiya
Special cities	Kakogawa Takarazuka
Cities	Aioi Akō Asago Ashiya Awaji Itami Kasai Katō Kawanishi Miki Minamiawaji Nishiwaki Ono Sanda Shisō Sumoto Takasago Tamba Tamba-Sasayama Tatsuno Toyooka Yabu
Districts	Akō District Kamigōri Ibo District Taishi Kako District Harima Inami Kanzaki District Fukusaki Ichikawa Kamikawa Kawabe District Inagawa Mikata District Kami Shin'onsen Sayō District Sayō Taka District Taka
List of mergers in Hyōgo Prefecture

Metropolitan cities of Japan

Tokyo Metropolis	Special wards of Tokyo^※ Adachi Arakawa Bunkyo Chiyoda Chūō Edogawa Itabashi Katsushika Kita Koto Meguro Minato Nakano Nerima Ōta Setagaya Shibuya Shinagawa Shinjuku Suginami Sumida Toshima Taitō
Designated cities	Chiba^※ Fukuoka^※ Hamamatsu Hiroshima^※ Kawasaki Kitakyushu Kobe^※ Kumamoto^※ Kyoto^※ Nagoya^※ Niigata^※ Okayama^※ Osaka^※ Sagamihara Saitama^※ Sakai Sapporo^※ Sendai^※ Shizuoka^※ Yokohama^※
Core cities	Akashi Akita^※ Amagasaki Aomori^※ Asahikawa Fukui^※ Fukushima^※ Fukuyama Funabashi Gifu^※ Hachinohe Hachiōji Hakodate Higashiōsaka Himeji Hirakata Iwaki Kagoshima^※ Kanazawa^※ Kashiwa Kawagoe Kawaguchi Kōchi^※ Kōfu^※ Kōriyama Koshigaya Kurashiki Kure Kurume Maebashi^※ Matsue^※ Matsuyama^※ Miyazaki^※ Morioka^※ Naha^※ Nagano^※ Nagasaki^※ Nara^※ Neyagawa Nishinomiya Ōita^※ Okazaki Ōtsu^※ Sasebo Shimonoseki Takamatsu^※ Takasaki Takatsuki Tottori^※ Toyama^※ Toyohashi Toyonaka Toyota Utsunomiya^※ Wakayama^※ Yao Yamagata^※ Yokosuka
Special cities	Atsugi Chigasaki^☆ Fuji^☆ Hiratsuka Ibaraki Ichinomiya^☆ Isesaki Jōetsu Kakogawa Kasugai Kasukabe Kishiwada^☆ Kumagaya Matsumoto^☆ Mito^※^☆ Nagaoka Numazu Odawara^☆ Ōta Saga^※ Sōka Suita^☆ Takarazuka Tokorozawa^☆ Tsukuba^☆ Yamato Yokkaichi^☆
Prefectural capitals without designation	Tsu Tokushima Yamaguchi

^※ also a prefectural capital; ^† eligible for core city status but not yet nominated; ^☆ to become core cities

Cities in Japan with a population of 200,000+
2,000,000 and more	Tokyo (capital) Yokohama Osaka Nagoya
1,000,000–1,999,999	Sapporo Fukuoka Kobe Kyoto Kawasaki Saitama Hiroshima Sendai
500,000–999,999	Kitakyushu Chiba Setagaya Sakai Niigata Hamamatsu Shizuoka City Sagamihara Nerima Okayama Ōta, Tokyo Kumamoto Edogawa Adachi Kagoshima Funabashi Hachiōji Kawaguchi Himeji Suginami Itabashi Matsuyama Higashiōsaka Utsunomiya
200,000–499,999	Matsudo Nishinomiya Kurashiki Ichikawa, Chiba Oita Fukuyama Amagasaki Kanazawa Nagasaki Kōtō Katsushika Yokosuka Toyama City Toyota Takamatsu Machida Gifu Hirakata Fujisawa Kashiwa Toyonaka Nagano City Toyohashi Ichinomiya Wakayama City Okazaki Miyazaki City Nara City Suita Takatsuki Shinagawa Asahikawa Iwaki Kochi City Takasaki Kōriyama Tokorozawa Kawagoe Kita Akita City Ōtsu Koshigaya Maebashi Naha Nakano, Tokyo Shinjuku Yokkaichi Aomori City Kurume Kasugai Morioka Akashi Fukushima City Tsu Shimonoseki Nagaoka Ichihara Hakodate Yao Ibaraki City Fukui City Meguro Kakogawa Tokushima Mito Hiratsuka Toshima Yamagata City Sasebo Fuchū, Tokyo Kure Hachinohe Saga City Neyagawa Sōka Sumida Fuji Kasukabe Chigasaki Matsumoto Atsugi Yamato Ageo Takarazuka Chōfu Ōta, Gunma Tsukuba Numazu Joetsu Shibuya Minato Kumagaya Isesaki Kishiwada Tottori City

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