Nada-ku, Kobe
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Nada-ku (灘区; Nada-ku) is one of 9 wards of Kobe in Japan. It has an area of 31.4 km², and a population of 128,448 (2006). A leading national university in Japan, Kobe University, is located in this ward.
The Tadao Ando-designed Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art is a short walk south of the JR station.
Nada is a major sake producing region, and along with Fushimi produces 45% of all the sake in Japan.[1]
It has plenty of water for good of making Sake,and near Osaka (it has been the hub of physical distribution of Japan.),so it has been one of the most principal area of making Sake same as Fushimi-ku, Kyoto.It was one of the area said Nada-Gogo(灘五郷),as famous Sake cellars.
[edit] Brands
- Sawano-turu(沢の鶴)
- Fukumusume(富久娘)
- Gekkeikan(月桂冠)
(other brands of Nada-Gogo: exclude Nada-ku.)
(Mikage-Go,Higashinada-ku,Kobe)
- Haku-turu(沢の鶴)
- Kikumasamune(富久娘)
- Kenbishi(月桂冠)
(Uozaki-go,Higashinada-ku,Kobe)
- Shouchikubai(白鶴)
- Sakuramasamune(櫻正宗)
(Nishinomiya-Go,Nishinomiya)
- Nihonsakari(日本盛)
- Tamon(多聞)
- Hakushika(白鹿)
- Fuhki(富貴)
(Imazu-Go,Nishinomiya)
- Ozeki(大関)
- Shirayuki(白雪)
[edit] References
- ^ Kansai Window - "Japan's number one sake production", retrieved January 24, 2007
[edit] External links
- Official website of Nada-ku, Kobe (Japanese)