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unusual facts about Awaji, Hyōgo



Aboshi

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

Awaji, Hyōgo

In 1999 this library and the West Bloomfield Library in West Bloomfield, Michigan in Metro Detroit were paired as sister institutions.

Bunraku

Originally, the term Bunraku referred only to the particular theater established in 1805 in Osaka, which was named the Bunrakuza after the puppeteering ensemble of Uemura Bunrakuken (植村文楽軒, 1751-1810), an early 18th-century puppeteer on Awaji, whose efforts revived the flagging fortunes of the traditional puppet theater.

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.

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.

Yōjirō

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


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