Nishi-ku

Nishi is one of 9 wards of , . It has an area of 137.86 km2, and a population of 248,407. Nishi in Japanese means west. Nishi-ku occupies the northwestern part of the city.
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  • Type: Suburb with 246,000 residents
  • Description: one of the nine wards of the City of Kobe
  • Also known as: “Nishi Ward” and “Nishi-ku, Kobe”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Plenty (shopping center) and Kobe Archeology Center.

Shopping center
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Museum
Photo: nnn, CC BY 2.1 jp.
is a museum.

Metro station
Photo: Rain0322, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Seishin-Chūō Station is a railway station in Nishi-ku, , , .

Nishi-ku

Latitude
34.7207° or 34° 43′ 15″ north
Longitude
135.0194° or 135° 1′ 10″ east
Population
246,000
Elevation
99 metres (325 feet)
Open location code
8Q6QP2C9+7Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 721818330
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
9534931
Wiki­data ID
Q1154552
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Nishi-ku” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نيشي-كو”
  • Armenian: “Նիշի-կու”
  • Catalan: “Nishi-ku”
  • Catalan: “Nishi”
  • Cebuano: “Nishi-ku (subdistrito sa Hapon, Hyōgo-ken)”
  • Cebuano: “Nishi-ku”
  • Chinese: “西区”
  • Chinese: “西區”
  • Dutch: “Nishi-ku”
  • French: “arrondissement Ouest”
  • French: “Nishi-ku”
  • German: “Nishi-ku”
  • Hungarian: “Nisi-ku”
  • Indonesian: “Nishi-ku, Kobe”
  • Irish: “Nishi-ku”
  • Italian: “Nishi-ku (Kōbe)”
  • Italian: “Nishi-ku”
  • Japanese: “Nishi-ku”
  • Japanese: “神戸市西区”
  • Japanese: “西区”
  • Korean: “니시구”
  • Latvian: “Nisi”
  • Portuguese: “Nishi-ku”
  • Russian: “Ниси-ку”
  • Russian: “Ниши”
  • Spanish: “Nishi-ku”
  • Thai: “เขตนิชิ”
  • Turkish: “Nishi, Kobe”
  • Venetian: “Nishi-ku”
  • Vietnamese: “Nishi, Kobe”

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