Awaji Island ( 淡路島 , Awaji-shima ) is an island in Hyōgo Prefecture , Japan , in the eastern part of the Seto Inland Sea between the islands of Honshū and Shikoku . The island has an area of 592.17 square kilometres (228.64 square miles). It is the largest island of the Seto Inland Sea.
11-746: Awaji may refer to: Awaji Island , an island in Hyōgo Prefecture Awaji Province Awaji, Hyōgo Awaji Station , a station in Osaka Prefecture Awajichō, Tokyo , a district of Tokyo 3380 Awaji , a main-belt Asteroid Awaji ware Japanese ships named Awaji People with the surname [ edit ] Keiko Awaji ( 淡路 恵子 , 1933–2014) , Japanese actress Shuzo Awaji ( 淡路 修三 , born 1949) , Japanese Go player Suguru Awaji ( 淡路 卓 , born 1989) , Japanese Olympic fencer Topics referred to by
22-527: A more-than-500-year-old form of traditional puppet theater , or ningyō-jōruri , daily performs several shows in the Awaji Ningyō-Jōruri Hall ( 人形浄瑠璃館 ) in Minamiawaji, Hyōgo in the southern part of the island and is designated an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Japan. The Awaji puppets perform popular traditional dramas but have their origins in religious rituals. Starting in the 1830s,
33-586: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Awaji Island As a transit between those two larger islands, Awaji originally means "the road to Awa ", the historic province bordering the Shikoku side of the Naruto Strait , now part of Tokushima Prefecture . The island is separated from Honshū by the Akashi Strait and from Shikoku by
44-579: The Naruto Strait . Since April 5, 1998, it has been connected to Kobe on Honshū by the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge , the second longest suspension bridge in the world. Since its completion, the Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway across the island has been the main eastern land link between Honshū and Shikoku. The Naruto whirlpools form in the strait between Naruto, Tokushima and Awaji. The Nojima Fault , responsible for
55-490: The surname Fukura . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fukura&oldid=818251703 " Categories : Surnames Japanese-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles containing Japanese-language text Articles with short description Short description
66-625: The 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake , cuts across the island. A section of the fault was protected and turned into the Nojima Fault Preservation Museum in the Hokudancho Earthquake Memorial Park ( 北淡町震災記念公園 ) to show how the movement in the ground cuts across roads, hedges and other installations. Outside of this protected area, the fault zone is less visible. The Onaruto Bridge Memorial Museum ( 大鳴門橋記念館 , Ōnarutokyō Kinenkan ) and
77-594: The Uzushio Science Museum ( うずしお科学館 , Uzushio Kagakukan ) are located near Fukura . According to the creation myth in Shinto , Awaji was the first of the ōyashima islands born from the kami Izanagi and Izanami . Awaji constituted a province between the 7th and the 19th century, Awaji Province , and was a part of Nankaidō . Today the island consists of three municipalities: Awaji , Sumoto and Minamiawaji . The Awaji Ningyō-Jōruri ,
88-468: The 💕 Fukura (written: 福良) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Junichi Fukura ( 福良 淳一 , born 1960) , Japanese baseball player Katsumi Fukura ( 福良 勝己 , born 1953) , Japanese high jumper See also [ edit ] Fukura Station , a railway station in Yuza, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
99-649: The local potter Minpei started producing what would be then known as Awaji ware , also known as Minpei ware. Tadao Ando designed several structures on the island, among them, the Hompuku-ji water temple ( 本福寺 ) and the Awaji Yumebutai , both located in Awaji, Hyōgo . In 1995, this island was the epicenter of the Kobe earthquake , which killed over 5,502 people. The earthquake caused enormous damage around
110-471: The northern part of the island, which experienced a severe earthquake with a seismic intensity 7. The earthquake has a seismic fault called Nojima Fault. This fault is one of the closest faults to the epicenter and was designated as a national natural monument in 1998. There are 3 municipalities in Awaji island: Awaji, Sumoto and Minamiawaji. They are part of Hyōgo Prefecture . Fukura From Misplaced Pages,
121-577: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Awaji . 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=Awaji&oldid=951512775 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Japanese-language surnames Hidden categories: Articles containing Japanese-language text Short description
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