Tarumi-ku
Tarumi is one of nine wards of Kobe, Japan. It has an area of 26.89 km2, and a population of 219,958. Tarumi is a suburban area in western Kobe, providing residential towns for commuters to downtown Kobe and even Osaka.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 219,000 residents
- Description: ward of Japan
- Also known as: “Tarumi”, “Tarumi Ward”, “Tarumi-chō”, “Tarumi-ku, Kobe”, and “Tarumi-mura”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Akashi Kaikyō Bridge and Shioya Station.
Akashi Kaikyō Bridge
Bridge
Photo: KishujiRapid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge is a suspension bridge that links the city of Kobe on the Japanese island of Honshu and Iwaya, Awaji on Awaji Island. It is part of the Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway, and crosses the busy and turbulent Akashi Strait. Akashi Kaikyō Bridge is situated 3½ km southwest of Tarumi-ku.
Shioya Station
Railway station
Photo: KishujiRapid, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shioya Station is a passenger railway station located in Tarumi-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, operated by the West Japan Railway Company.
Goshikizuka tumulus
Photo: Saigen Jiro, CC0.
The Goshikizuka Kofun is a kofun burial mound located in the Goshikiyama neighborhood of Tarumi-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, in the Kansai region of Japan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Akashi.
Akashi
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Akashi is a city in southern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 February 2024, the city had an estimated population of 305,925 in 137,288 households and a population density of 6,200 people per km2. The total area of the city is 49.42 square kilometres.
Tarumi-ku
- Categories: ward of Japan, administrative territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Kobe, Hyogo, Kansai, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.6306° or 34° 37′ 50″ northLongitude
135.0568° or 135° 3′ 24″ eastPopulation
219,000Elevation
84 metres (276 feet)Open location code
8Q6QJ3J4+6POpenStreetMap ID
node 721818436OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
1850591Wikidata ID
Q1078806
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Tarumi-ku” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تارومي-كو”
- Armenian: “Տարումի-կու”
- Catalan: “Tarumi-ku”
- Catalan: “Tarumi”
- Cebuano: “Tarumi Ku”
- Chinese: “垂水区”
- Chinese: “垂水區”
- French: “arrondissement de Tarumi”
- French: “Arrondissement de Tarumi”
- French: “Tarumi-ku”
- Galician: “Tarumi-ku”
- German: “Tarumi-ku”
- German: “Tarumi”
- Hungarian: “Tarumi-ku”
- Indonesian: “Tarumi-ku, Kobe”
- Irish: “Tarumi-ku”
- Italian: “Tarumi-ku”
- Japanese: “Tarumi-ku”
- Japanese: “たるみく”
- Japanese: “タルミク”
- Japanese: “垂水区”
- Japanese: “垂水区役所”
- Japanese: “神戸市垂水区”
- Kabyle: “Tarumi-ku”
- Korean: “다루미구”
- Latvian: “Tarumi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarumi-ku”
- Persian: “تارومی-کو، کوبه”
- Portuguese: “Tarumi-ku”
- Russian: “Таруми-ку”
- Russian: “Таруми”
- Spanish: “Tarumi-ku”
- Swedish: “Tarumi-ku”
- Thai: “เขตทารูมิ”
- Turkish: “Tarumi”
- Venetian: “Tarumi-ku”
- Vietnamese: “Tarumi”
- “Tarumi-ku”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include 神戸市 垂水区役所 and Kobeshiritsutarumi Library.
Hyogo: Must-Visit Destinations
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