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19-475: Amagasaki ( 尼崎市 , Amagasaki-shi ) is an industrial city located in Hyōgo Prefecture , Japan. As of 30 November 2022, the city had an estimated population of 455,555 in 223,812 households, and a population density of 9000 persons per km². The total area of the city is 50.72 km (19.58 sq mi). Amagasaki is located in far southeastern Hyōgo Prefecture, next to Osaka . It has

38-452: A municipality to be designated as a city: The designation is approved by the prefectural governor and the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications . A city can theoretically be demoted to a town or village when it fails to meet any of these conditions, but such a demotion has not happened to date. The least populous city, Utashinai, Hokkaido , has a population of three thousand, while

57-538: A town in the same prefecture, Otofuke, Hokkaido , has over forty thousand. Under the Act on Special Provisions concerning Merger of Municipalities ( 市町村の合併の特例等に関する法律 , Act No. 59 of 2004) , the standard of 50,000 inhabitants for the city status has been eased to 30,000 if such population is gained as a result of a merger of towns and/or villages , in order to facilitate such mergers to reduce administrative costs. Many municipalities gained city status under this eased standard. On

76-520: Is 1475 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.9 °C, and lowest in January, at around 3.7 °C. Per Japanese census data, the population of Amagasaki peaked around the 1970s has been decreasing steadily since. The area of Amagasaki was part of ancient Kawabe District of Settsu Province and has been inhabited since ancient times, with

95-584: Is a private junior college in Amagasaki, Hyogo , Japan . The Japan Iron and Steel Federation Corp considered it necessary to provide specialized training to engineers who would work in the iron and steel industry in 1962. It consists of four departments now. Moreover, it is one of the very few industry-specific junior colleges in Japan. 34°46′13″N 135°22′56″E  /  34.77028°N 135.38222°E  / 34.77028; 135.38222 This article on

114-574: Is a local administrative unit in Japan . Cities are ranked on the same level as towns ( 町 , machi ) and villages ( 村 , mura ) , with the difference that they are not a component of districts ( 郡 , gun ) . Like other contemporary administrative units, they are defined by the Local Autonomy Law of 1947. Article 8 of the Local Autonomy Law sets the following conditions for

133-1056: The Sonoda Women's University , a women's four-year college with associated junior college are located in the city. The city has a North Korean school , Amagasaki Korean Elementary and Middle School ( 尼崎朝鮮初中級学校 ) . It previously had a second school, Amagasaki East Korean Elementary School ( 尼崎東朝鮮初級学校 ) . [REDACTED] JR West - Tōkaidō Main Line ( JR Kobe Line ) [REDACTED] JR West - Fukuchiyama Line ( JR Takarazuka Line ) [REDACTED] JR West - JR Tōzai Line [REDACTED] Hankyu - Kobe Line [REDACTED] Hankyu - Itami Line [REDACTED] Hanshin Electric Railway - Hanshin Main Line [REDACTED] Hanshin Electric Railway - Hanshin Namba Line Cities of Japan A city ( 市 , shi )

152-451: The "city code" ( shisei , 市制) of 1888 during the "Great Meiji mergers" ( Meiji no daigappei , 明治の大合併) of 1889. The -shi replaced the previous urban districts /"wards/cities" (-ku) that had existed as primary subdivisions of prefectures besides rural districts (-gun) since 1878. Initially, there were 39 cities in 1889: only one in most prefectures, two in a few (Yamagata, Toyama, Osaka, Hyōgo, Fukuoka), and none in some – Miyazaki became

171-537: The Fukuchiyama Line near Amagasaki on April 25, 2005, resulting in more than 100 dead and 550 injured. On April 1, 2009, Amagasaki was elevated to the status of a core city . Amagasaki has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 42 members. Amagasaki contributes seven members to the Hyōgo Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics,

190-694: The city is in the Hyōgo 8th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . On 22 November 2010 Kazumi Inamura became the first popularly elected Greens Japan Mayor as well as the youngest popularly-elected female mayor of the city with 54% of the vote. Amagasaki is a major part of the Hanshin Industrial Region . Businesses headquartered in the city include manufacturers such as Osaka Titanium Technologies . The value of manufactured goods shipments in Amagasaki

209-673: The fourth largest population in Hyōgo Prefecture after Kobe , Himeji , and Nishinomiya . Residential areas account for most of the rest of the coastal areas, industrial areas along the Meishin Expressway and JR West Fukuchiyama Line , commercial areas around Hanshin Amagasaki Station and JR Amagasaki Station , and its population density is the highest among municipalities in Hyogo Prefecture. Ground subsidence caused by

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228-535: The last prefecture to contain its first city in 1924. In Okinawa -ken and Hokkai-dō which were not yet fully equal prefectures in the Empire, major urban settlements remained organized as urban districts until the 1920s: Naha-ku and Shuri-ku, the two urban districts of Okinawa were only turned into Naha -shi and Shuri-shi in May 1921, and six -ku of Hokkaidō were converted into district-independent cities in August 1922. By 1945,

247-442: The modern municipalities system. It was elevated to city status on October 1, 1916. The 1934 Muroto typhoon caused 145 fatalities and much of the city was destroyed by air raids on June 1 and June 15, 1945 during World War II . The 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake also caused considerable damage and 49 fatalities. Amagasaki was designated a special city on April 1, 2001 with increased local autonomy. A commuter train derailed on

266-535: The number of cities countrywide had increased to 205. After WWII , their number almost doubled during the "great Shōwa mergers" of the 1950s and continued to grow so that it surpassed the number of towns in the early 21st century (see the List of mergers and dissolutions of municipalities in Japan ). As of October 1 2018, there are 792 cities of Japan. College of Industrial Technology College of Industrial Technology ( 産業技術短期大学 , Sangyo Gijutsu Tanki Daigaku )

285-448: The other hand, the municipalities recently gained the city status purely as a result of increase of population without expansion of area are limited to those listed in List of former towns or villages gained city status alone in Japan . The Cabinet of Japan can designate cities of at least 200,000 inhabitants to have the status of core city , or designated city . These statuses expand the scope of administrative authority delegated from

304-543: The prefectural government to the city government. Tokyo , Japan's capital, existed as a city until 1943, but is now legally classified as a special type of prefecture called a metropolis ( 都 , to ) . The 23 special wards of Tokyo , which constitute the core of the Tokyo metropolitan area, each have an administrative status analogous to that of cities. Tokyo also has several other incorporated cities, towns and villages within its jurisdiction. Cities were introduced under

323-401: The pumping up of groundwater by factories has reduced one-third of the city's area to sea level, causing flooding damage due to storm surges. Hyōgo Prefecture Osaka Prefecture Amagasaki has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light snowfall. The average annual temperature in Amagasaki is 15.0 °C. The average annual rainfall

342-545: The traces of Yayoi period settlements and many kofun burial mounds found within the city limits. From the Heian period , the area was known for its port of Daimotsuura. During the Edo period , Amagasaki prospered as the castle town of Amagasaki Domain undertake Aoayama and subsequently the Matsudaira clans . The town of Amagasaki was established on April 1, 1889 with the creation of

361-474: Was 1,288 billion yen in 2004. Amagasaki has 42 public elementary schools and 17 public middle schools operated by the city government, 11 public high schools operated by the Hyōgo Prefectural Board of Education, and two combined private middle/high schools. In addition, the city also operates one special education school for the handicapped. The College of Industrial Technology , a junior college, and

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