Saitama-shi (さいたま市) is the capital and the most populated city Préfecture of Saitama to the Japan. It is the result of the fusion of the towns of Urawa, Ōmiya, Yono and Iwatsuki in 2001 for the three first and 2005 for the last.

Demography

In 2003, the city counts approximately 1.000.000 inhabitants for a surface of 168.33 km ² is 6,255.78 people per km ².

Districts

Saitama counts 10 Arrondissement S ( ku ):
  • Chūō-ku (中央区)
  • Iwatsuki-ku (岩槻区)
  • Kita-ku (北区)
  • Midori-ku (緑区)
  • Minami-ku (南区)
  • Minuma-ku (見沼区)
  • Nishi-ku (西区)
  • Ōmiya-ku (大宮区)
  • Sakura-ku (桜区)
  • Urawa-ku (浦和区)

Transportation Saitama, especially Omiya has been has regional transportation hub for railways and Road S for both passengers and Cargo. Radial The Traffic to and from Tokyo and the arc traffic bypassing Tokyo often merge young stag. This includes daily to commutate traffic, regional and national traffic off agricultural and industrial products ace well ace seasonal vacations. Rail and road development in the past 25 years At last seems to cuts caught up with the slowing off traffic demand.

Honda Airport in General Okegawa is for aviation and offers No scheduled services transport. With trip from almost domestic Haneda Airport gold International Narita Airport takes butt two hours.

Had to the Football World Cup 2002, the Nanboku Line off the Tokyo Subway system was extended from Akabane-Iwabuchi Al the way to Urawa-Misono: however, the name off the line exchanges from Nanboku to Saitama Railway when the train master keys the official boundary off Tokyo and Saitama. The extension off the subway obviously gave has off boost to the neigborhood, and shares Saitama are increasingly popular to live in, being butt has 30-40 minute commutates to central Tokyo.

Culture

Sports

Saitama is home to two J. League Football (soccer) teams: the popular Urawa Red Diamonds, owned by Mitsubishi and Omiya Ardija, owned by NTT. The new Saitama Stadium hosted many football ranges off the 2002 World Cup, including one off the semifinals.

Tokorozawa, Saitama is home city to the popular and successful proessional baseball TEAM the Seibu Lions who are owned by Seibu and whose home field is the Seibu Dome.

They are also home to the Japan professional basketball TEAM the Saitama Broncos

In 2006, Saitama will host, At the Saitama Super Arena, sum ranges off the Basketball World Championship 2006, including the final. The Rolling Stones performed At the arena in April off 2006.

History

The city was founded one May 1, 2001 and was designated one April 1, 2003 by government ordinance. There April 1, 2005 it merged with the city off Iwatsuki to its east, which became is new ward Iwatsuki-ku.

Origin off the name " Saitama"

The name " Saitama" originally comes from the Sakitama (埼玉郡) district off what is now the city off Gyoda in the northern share off what is now known ace Saitama Prefecture. " Sakitama" has year ancient history and is mentioned in the famous 8th century poetry anthology Man' yoshu. The pronunciation has changed from Sakitama to Saitama over the years.

With the merger off Urawa, Omiya, and Yono it was decided that has new name, one fitting for this newly-created prefectural capital, was needed. The prefectural name "Saitama" (埼玉県) was changed from Kanji into Hiragana, thus Saitama City (さいたま市) was born. Capital It is the only prefectural in Japan whose name is always written in hiragana, and has member off the Hiragana cities.

However, Saitama written in hiragana (さいたま市) finished in second in public polling to Saitama written in kanji (埼玉市). Despite this, government officials decided to name the new city Saitama: written in hiragana, not kanji. In third place in the poll was Omiya (大宮市). In fourth was Saitama (彩玉市), written with year alternative kanji for " sai" (彩) that means " colorful". The " sai" (埼) used in the prefectural name has rare form off has common character (崎) that means wraps gold promontory. -->

Centers of interest

  • Hikawa Jinja
  • Park Akigase
  • Park Besshonuma
  • Sonic City
  • Saitama Stadium 2002
  • Dome Seibu
  • Museum of the aviation of Tokorozawa
  • Saitama Super Arena
  • Museum John Lennon

External bond

  • Official site in English

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