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unusual facts about Chūō-ku, Sapporo



10 Promises to My Dog

Not long after Akari's mother died, the family moves to Sapporo because her father was given a lecturer post at a university there.

1940 Olympics

The 1940 Winter Olympics, which were to be held in Sapporo, Japan, before moving to St. Moritz, Switzerland, before moving to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, before being cancelled due to World War II

1985 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships

Eight teams contested the second tier this year in Sapporo Japan from March 15 to 24.

2012 Consadole Sapporo season

The 2012 Consadole Sapporo season is Consadole Sapporo's 1st season in J. League Division 1 since 2008, hence the club's 8th overall in the top flight.

Agigawa Dam

If traveling via public transportation, take the Chūō Main Line to Ena Station, and then transfer to the Tōnō Railways bus going toward Tōnō Station, riding for about 15 to 20 minutes and getting off the bus at "Higashino Koujima".

Akira Machida

In 1961 he was appointed as an assistant judge to the Tokyo District and its Family Court, the judge of the Muroran branch of the Sapporo District and its Family Court, and the judge of the Civil Affairs Bureau of the General Secretariat of the Supreme Court.

Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet

They have appeared together at many early music festivals including those in Berlin, Utrecht, London and Sapporo, and regularly tour throughout Europe, the USA and Japan.

Andrea Morassi

Morassi's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 11th in the team large hill event at Liberec in 2009 while his best individual finish was 22nd in the individual large hill event at Sapporo two years earlier.

Brett Camerota

Camerota's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 31st in the 15 km individual Gundersen event at Sapporo in 2007.

Chūō-ku, Saitama

Yono Station and Saitama-Shintoshin Station on the Keihin-Tōhoku Line (the latter also on the Takasaki and Tōhoku Main Lines) straddle the border between Chūō-ku and other Saitama wards, but are officially located in Urawa-ku and Ōmiya-ku respectively.

Clive Gillinson

In the international touring arena, the LSO established an annual residency in New York from 1997 and was a founding partner in the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, in 1990, with Leonard Bernstein and Michael Tilson Thomas.

CZW World Junior Heavyweight Championship

Jun Kasai won the title in Sapporo, while Acid reclaimed the title in Yokohama.

Eastern Youth

Eastern Youth was formed as Scanners in 1989 by childhood friends Hisashi Yoshino and Atsuya Tamori in Sapporo, Hokkaidō.

Erik Håker

Erik Håker (born March 4, 1952) is a Norwegian alpine skier from Oppdal who finished 5th in the men's downhill at the 1972 Winter Olympics at Sapporo.

FIL European Luge Championships 2008

The tie for the bronze was the first in a Winter Olympic, world championship, or European championship event since they started timing luge in the 1/1000ths of a second following the tie between Italy and East Germany in the men's doubles event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.

Hana Yori Dango Final

When the movie was released in theaters, Mao Inoue and the cast of F4 flew in a Boeing 737-500 to visit Sapporo, Nagoya and Fukuoka on July 12, 2008 and Osaka and Tokyo on July 13, 2008 to meet with fans.

History of Kagoshima Prefecture

In 2004, Kyushu Shinkansen partially opened between Shin-Yatsushiro and Kagoshima Chuo Station which opened fully in 2011.

Hudson Soft

It was headquartered in the Midtown Tower in Tokyo Midtown, Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, with an additional office in the Hudson Building in Sapporo.

Japanese Olympic Committee

Japan has held the Olympic Games three times: the Summer Olympics once (1964 Summer Olympic Games, Tokyo) and the Winter Olympics twice (1972 Winter Olympics, Sapporo, and the 1998 Winter Olympic Games, Nagano).

Judicial system of Japan

They (Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Hiroshima, Takamatsu, and Fukuoka) serve defined circuits of several prefectures each; there are also "branch offices" in Akita, Kanazawa, Okayama, Matsue, Miyazaki, and Naha.

Katsunuma

Katsunuma-budōkyō Station, railway station of Chūō Main Line, East Japan Railway Company

KiHa 141 series

A large number of locomotive-hauled 50 series coaches became surplus to requirements following electrification of lines in the Sapporo area of Hokkaido in the late 1980s.

Larval Stage Planning

The group is also a member of the Sapporo-based music production group I've Sound.

Les Olympiades

The eight tallest towers are each 104 metres (341 feet) tall and are named after cities that have hosted the Olympic games: Anvers (Antwerp), Athènes (Athens), Cortina, Helsinki, Londres (London), Mexico, Sapporo, and Tokyo.

Mari Kodama

Kodama is a founding member of chamber music festivals in San Francisco, Sapporo, and Gmunden.

Mats Wallberg

Mats Wallberg (born February 21, 1949 in Gunnarskog) is a former ice speed skater from Sweden, who represented his native country in two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1972 in Sapporo, Japan.

Misawa Airport

Initially served by Toa Airways with McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80 aircraft to Tokyo (Haneda), Sapporo (Chitose), and Osaka Itami, operations were upgraded to Airbus A300 aircraft after Toa Airways became Japan Air System in 1988.

Nakasu

In 1600, Kuroda Nagamasa, a daimyo of the Fukuoka-Han at that time, created Nakasu to connect between current Chūō-ku and Hakata-ku by building two bridges over the rivers at the sandbank: Higashi Nakajima Bridge and Nishi Nakajima Bridge (currently is Shōwa Street) .

Osaka International Peace Center

It is a five-minute walk from Morinomiya Station on the JR Osaka Loop Line and Chūō and Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi subway lines.

Roland Thöni

His best year was 1972, which he opened with a bronze medal in the slalom at the Winter Olympics in Sapporo, finishing behind his cousin Gustav and Francisco Fernández Ochoa, the gold medalist from Spain.

Ronny Heer

Heer's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was fifth in the 4 x 5 km team event at Sapporo in 2007 while his best individual finish was 14th in the 10 km individual normal hill event at Liberec two years later.

Ryū ga Gotoku 5

The three new cities in the game are Nagasugai, part of the fictional Fukuoka based on Nakasu, Tsukimino, part of the fictional Sapporo based on Susukino and Kin'eicho, part of the fictional Nagoya based on Sakae.

Sapporo Factory

The building was formerly a brewery that belonged to the Kaitakushi, the old government of Hokkaidō prefecture, and later owned by the Sapporo Beer Company, the predecessor of the Sapporo Brewery.

Sapporo Ichiban

Sapporo Ichiban literally means "Sapporo's number one noodle", but there is no relation between Sapporo Ichiban and the city of Sapporo, Hokkaido.

Tapio Räisänen

Räisänen's best non-world championship career finish was 9th in a normal hill event at Bischofshofen, Austria in 1979, and 1st in Japan, Sapporo large hill 1980.

Teine

Teine-ku, Sapporo, an administrative district of the city of Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan

Sapporo Teine, a ski resort and amusement park in Teine-ku, Sapporo, Japan

Tetsuya Chiba

He was born in Chuo, Tokyo, Japan, but lived most of his early childhood in Manchuria when it was still a Japanese colony during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Toyohira-ku, Sapporo

Hitsujigaoka Observation Hill - where visitors can view the scene of Sapporo City from the hill, also famous for the bronze statue of William S. Clark

Twilight Express

Trains for Sapporo depart Osaka at 11:50, and call at Shin-Ōsaka, Kyoto, Tsuruga, Fukui, Kanazawa, Takaoka, Toyama, Naoetsu, and Nagaoka, with the final passenger pick-up made at Niitsu at 19:39.

Water supply and sanitation in Japan

The average unaccounted for sewerage is 12%, varying from 6% in Shiga to 30% in Sapporo.

Yaesu Route

It connects the Inner Circular Route at Kandabashi Junction in Chiyoda Ward to the Tokyo Expressway at Nishi-ginza Junction in Chūō Ward.

Yono

Yono was a town (1889-1956) and then a city (-2001) of Saitama Prefecture, Japan and currently comprises the most of Chūō-ku, Saitama.


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