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unusual facts about Akashi, Hyōgo



Aboshi

Aboshi Station, a train station in Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

All My Lenins

Moreover, Kesküla had former experience to initiate rebels in Russia with the help of the foreign hands: in 1905, in Tallinn, Tartu and Riga he got money from Japanese spy Motohirto Akashi and acted in his interests.

France–Japan relations

A fight erupts in Akashi between 450 samurai of Okayama Domain and French sailors, leading to the occupation of central Kobe by foreign troops.

Hashidate

One of the services making up JR West's "Big X Network", it connects Kyoto Station, Amanohashidate Station and Toyooka Station via the Sanin Main Line and Kitakinki Tango Railway's Miyafuku Line and Miyazu Line.

Honshū–Shikoku Bridge Project

Crossing the Akashi Strait, this connection links Hyōgo Prefecture on Honshu with Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku, using Awaji Island for most of its length.

Ibaraki-dōji

Concerning Shuten-doji, there are stories that he was born at the base of Mount Ibuki among other famous stories, but concerning Ibaraki-doji, there are stories that he was born in Amagasaki, Hyogo, and Ibaraki, Osaka among other places, and documented from various sources like the Settsu Meisho Zue (摂津名所図会), Settsuyou Kendan (摂陽研説), and Setuyou Gundan (摂陽群談).

Imazu

Hankyū Imazu Line, 9.3 km long commuter rail in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

Kaibara

Kaibara, Hyōgo, a former town located in Hikami District, Hyōgo, Japan.

Kobe Station

# Kōsoku Kōbe Station - (高速神戸駅) on the Hanshin Railway Kobe Kosoku Line and the Hankyu Railway Kobe Kosoku Line in Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture

Nada Station

This station is located near Iwaya Station of the Hanshin Main Line, and an entrance to HAT Kobe (includes Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo International Center of JICA, WHO Kobe Center and Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution).

Phosphofructokinase deficiency

It was named after the Japanese Physician, Seiichiro Tarui (1927- ), who was a native of Hyōgo Prefecture in Japan.

Satsu

Satsu Station, a station in Kami, Mikata District, Hyōgo, Japan

Takijirō Ōnishi

Ōnishi′s ashes were divided between two graves – one at the Zen temple of Sōji-ji in Tsurumi, Yokohama, and the other at the public cemetery in former Ashida village in Hyōgo prefecture.

The Tatami Galaxy

Akashi, formerly of Soleil, recruits him to pilot the plane she is designing to be entered in the Birdman contest, wherein human-powered one-person planes are launched out over Lake Biwa until they fall.

Yasushi Akashi

Yasushi Akashi (明石 康 Akashi Yasushi, born January 19, 1931 in Hinai, Akita Prefecture) is a senior Japanese diplomat and United Nations administrator.

Yōjirō

Yojiro Terada (born 1947), Japanese racing driver from Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture


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