Tsuruga

Tsuruga 敦賀市
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Location of Tsuruga in Fukui
Tsuruga
Coordinates: 35°39′N 136°3′E / 35.65°N 136.05°E / 35.65; 136.05
Country	Japan
Region	Chūbu
Prefecture	Fukui
Government
- Mayor	Ichiji Kawase
Area
- Total	250.74 km2 (96.8 sq mi)
Population (October 1, 2005)	68,401
- Density	272.80/km2 (706.5/sq mi)
City Symbols
- Tree	Pine
- Flower	Lespedeza
- Bird	Black-headed Gull
Website	City of Tsuruga
Phone number	0770-21-1111
Address 2-1-1 Chūō-chō, Tsuruga-shi, Fukui-ken 914-8501

Tsuruga (敦賀市, Tsuruga-shi^?) is a city located in southern Fukui Prefecture, Japan.

Outline

One of city of Wakasa Area, present southern Fukui Prececture. Municipalized on April 1, 1937.

Tsuruga is well known for fresh quality seafood and a nuclear power plant. Tsuruga is home to both the Monju demonstration nuclear plant and the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant.

Location

Facing to Wakasa Bay, about 55 km south from Fukui, 80 km east from Maizuru, 97 km northeast from Kyoto, 140 km northeast from Osaka, 52 km north from Maibara, 115 km northwest from Nagoya.

Among cities on the Japan Sea coast, Tsuruga is the nearest city to the Pacific Ocean. The distance between Tsuruga and Nagoya is only 115 km. Tsuruga and Nagoya are historically close to Shiga Prefecture and Kyoto.

Tsuruga City office.

Activities

Well-known Japanese DJ Chikashi Nishiwaki also founded his eclectic club, Tree, here. The club has been host to many national and international celebrity guests such as Jazztronik, Gilles Peterson, Toshio Matsuura from UFO, DJs Ravi, Julien Love and Two Dee, and Soil and Pimp Sessions. He has also mixed music with Tyronne Noonan, former frontman of George.

About twenty or so bronze statues - each perhaps four or five feet tall - of characters and scenes from the popular 1970s anime Uchū Senkan Yamato (Space Battleship Yamato or, in the United States, Star Blazers) and Galaxy Express 999 were erected in the city's downtown area in 1999. Though the creator of these shows, Leiji Matsumoto, was born elsewhere, an exhibit of his artwork was held in the city in 1999 as part of the city's 100th anniversary celebration, accompanied by the erection of the statues.

Transportation

Tsuruga Port.

Railway

• central station : Tsuruga Station
• Hokuriku Main Line
• Obama Line
• Kosei Line

Road

• Route 8
• Route 27
• Route 161

Port

• Tsuruga Port

Sister cities

Kehi matsubara beach

• Donghae, Republic of Korea
• Taizhou, People's Republic of China
• Nakhodka, Russia

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Tsuruga, Fukui

• Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant
• Kitamaebune
• Lake Biwa

External links

• (Japanese) Official website
• (Japanese) Galaxy Express 999 and Space Battleship Yamato statues in Tsuruga

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