The Arakawa River or Ara River ( Japanese : 荒川 , Hepburn : Arakawa , "kawa" (川) already means "river") is a 173-kilometre (107 mi) long river that flows through Saitama Prefecture and Tokyo . Its average flow in 2002 was 30 m /s.
5-532: Arakawa River ( 荒川 ) or Ara River may refer to: Arakawa River (Kanto) , which flows from Saitama Prefecture and through Tokyo to Tokyo Bay Arakawa River (Uetsu) , which flows from Yamagata Prefecture and through Niigata Prefecture to the Sea of Japan. Arakawa River (Fukushima) , which starts and finishes in Fukushima City, Fukushima Topics referred to by
10-633: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Arakawa River (Kanto) It originates on Mount Kobushi in Saitama Prefecture , and empties into Tokyo Bay . It has a total catchment area of 2,940 km (1,140 sq mi). The river is one of Tokyo's major sources of tap water , and together with the Tone River , accounts for around 80% of Tokyo's water supply as of 2018. The Okubo water purification plant takes water from
15-518: The eastern United States. This means that officials and volunteers from both river areas collaborate with each other. This river is also depicted in many anime such as Toaru Kagaku no Railgun and Arakawa Under the Bridge , which is set on the riverbank. The Arakawa plays a small but significant background role in the game Yakuza 4 . Main character Masayoshi Tanimura spends the game trying to discover who murdered his father, Taigi, whose body
20-594: The river. Attempts to control flooding of the Arakawa River have been made since the area that is now Tokyo became the de facto capital of Japan during the Edo period . Following a major flood in 1910 that damaged a large part of central Tokyo, a 22-kilometre (14 mi) long drainage canal was constructed between 1911 and 1924. In 1996 an agreement was signed to make it a "sister river" of the Potomac River in
25-470: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Arakawa River . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arakawa_River&oldid=790458167 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Japanese-language text Short description
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