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unusual facts about Ashiya, Hyōgo


Hoshino Tenchi

After his house was destroyed in the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, he moved to Ashiya, Hyōgo, near Kobe, where he continued to teach Japanese calligraphy.


Aboshi

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

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.

Hidehiko Yamabe

Hidehiko Yamabe was born on August 22, 1923 in the city of Ashiya, belonging to the Hyōgo Prefecture, the sixth son of Takehiko and Rei Yamabe.

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.

Karl Joseph Wilhelm Juchheim

Both Karl and Elise Juchheim are now buried in the cemetery in Ashiya.

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

Mizuki Sano

Mizuki Ashiya and Izumi Sano, the two main characters in the manga Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, are named after him.

Morinosuke Kawaguchi

Morinosuke Kawaguchi (川口盛之助, b. May 1, 1961 in Ashiya, Japan) is a Japanese futurist and innovation expert.

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.

Tatiana Stepanova

Since 1985, is a Teacher of Ballet, giving classes in Odessa (Ukraine), Saratov and Saint Petersburg (Russia), Madrid, Valencia, Puertollano and Lugo (Spain) and Ashiya and Nishinomiya (Japan)

Yōjirō

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

Yoshinori Okada

Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (TV Special, 2008) (as Ashiya Shizuki, Ashiya Mizuki's brother)

Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (TV, 2007) (as Ashiya Shizuki, Ashiya Mizuki's brother)


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