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18-848: Sakaiminato is located in far western Tottori Prefecture, at the northern end of the Yumigahama Peninsula. It is surrounded on three sides by Lake Nakaumi , the Sea of Japan , and the Sakai Channel, which connects them. Across the Sakai Channel or across the Eshima Ohashi Bridge , it borders the city of Matsue in Shimane Prefecture . Sakaiminato is located on a sandbar, and the land is very flat, with an average elevation of two meters above sea level. Tottori Prefecture Shimane Prefecture Sakaiminato has

36-613: A Humid climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm, wet summers and cold winters with heavy snowfall. The average annual temperature in Sakaiminato is 15.5 °C (59.9 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,903.3 mm (74.93 in) with July as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 27.3 °C (81.1 °F), and lowest in January, at around 4.9 °C (40.8 °F). Its record high

54-928: A number of private commuter rail operators around Osaka, the "Big 4" being Hankyu Railway / Hanshin Railway (Hankyu bought Hanshin in April 2005), Keihan Railway , Kintetsu , and Nankai Railway . JR-West's market share in the region is roughly equal to that of the Big 4 put together, largely due to its comprehensive network and high-speed commuter trains (Special Rapid Service trains on the Kobe and Kyoto lines operate at up to 130 km/h). Those in italics are announcement names. A number of other lines account for more than half of JR-West's track mileage. These lines mainly handle business and leisure travel between smaller cities and rural areas in western Japan. They account for about 20% of

72-577: A sea because of its saline water and proximity to the actual sea. In Japanese , the lake is usually referred to simply as Nakaumi, not as Nakaumi-ko (Lake Nakaumi). West Japan Railway Company The West Japan Railway Company , also referred to as JR West ( JR西日本 , Jeiāru Nishi-Nihon ) , is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu . It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka . It

90-642: A short commuter line with Shinkansen trains in Fukuoka . The "Urban Network" is JR-West's name for its commuter rail lines in the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area. These lines together comprise 610 km of track, have 245 stations and account for about 43% of JR-West's passenger revenues. Urban Network stations are equipped to handle ICOCA fare cards. Train control on these lines is highly automated, and during peak hours trains run as often as every two minutes. JR-West's Urban Network competes with

108-461: Is 38.5 °C (101.3 °F), reached on 22 August 2018, and its record low is −9.7 °C (14.5 °F), reached on 27 January 1904. Per Japanese census data, the population of Sakaiminato has been as follows. The name of Sakaiminato in the Japanese language is formed from two kanji characters. The first, 境 , means " border ", and the second, 港 means " port ". The area of Sakaiminato

126-852: Is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange , is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and is also one of only three Japan Railways Group constituents of the Nikkei 225 index: the others are JR East and JR Central . It was also listed in the Nagoya and Fukuoka stock exchanges until late 2020. JR-West's highest-grossing line is the Sanyo Shinkansen high-speed rail line between Osaka and Fukuoka . The Sanyo Shinkansen alone accounts for about 40% of JR-West's passenger revenues. The company also operates Hakata Minami Line ,

144-677: The Edo Period , it was part of the holdings of the Ikeda clan of Tottori Domain . Following the Meiji restoration , the port prospered as a strategic point for domestic shipping routes in the Sea of Japan, and was designated as a trading port in 1896 for continental trade with Busan , Incheon , and Wonsan on the Korean Peninsula . The town of Sakai was established on October 21, 1889 with

162-476: The Eshima Ohashi Bridge ) and roads that connect the east and west shores of the lake through the two islands. Nakaumi is a brackish lake because it is connected to the Sea of Japan by a short channel, the Sakai Channel , and lies so low that the tides reverse the flow of the rivers all the way into Lake Shinji. Nakaumi (中海) literally means "middle sea". Even though Nakaumi is a lake, it was likely named

180-564: The lower house of the Diet of Japan . The seaport of Sakaiminato has a long history as a seaport for the San'in Region . Following World War II the city has served as the base of the fishing industry for all of Western Japan. Consequently, marine product processing is also a major industry in the city. Sakaiminato has six public elementary schools and three public junior high schools operated by

198-484: The city council meetings, but the mayor must call a special meeting when requested by one-fourth or more of the fixed number of council members . The city council members are citizens who are at least 25 years of age, and are elected every four years. Sakaiminato contributes two members to the Tottori Prefectural Assembly.. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Tottori 2nd district of

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216-511: The company's passenger revenues. JR-West subsidiaries include the following. JR-West was incorporated as a business corporation ( kabushiki kaisha ) on April 1, 1987, as part of the breakup of the state-owned Japanese National Railways (JNR). Initially, it was a wholly owned subsidiary of the JNR Settlement Corporation (JNRSC), a special company created to hold the assets of the former JNR while they were shuffled among

234-461: The east. It is the fifth largest lake in surface area in Japan. Nakaumi connects Lake Shinji (宍道湖 Shinji-ko ) and the Sea of Japan , and is surrounded by the municipalities Matsue , Yasugi , Yonago and Sakaiminato . There are two large islands in the lake, Daikon Island (大根島 Daikonjima , literally " radish island") and Eshima Island (江島 Eshima , "inlet island"). There are bridges (like

252-505: The establishment of the modern municipalities system. It was raised to city status on April 1, 1956, changing its name to Sakaiminato at that time. Sakaiminato has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 15 members. The current mayor of Sakaiminato is Kentarō Date, serving since July 25, 2020. The city council meets four times a year (March, June, September, and December) and special meetings take place if required. The mayor convenes

270-534: The new JR companies. For the first four years of its existence, JR-West leased its highest-revenue line, the Sanyō Shinkansen , from the separate Shinkansen Holding Corporation. JR-West purchased the line in October 1991 at a cost of 974.1 billion JPY (about US$ 7.2 billion) in long-term debt. JNRSC sold 68.3% of JR-West in an initial public offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October 1996. After JNRSC

288-603: The town government. The city has two public high schools operated by the Tottori Prefectural Board of Education. [REDACTED] JR West - Sakai Line . Sakaiminato is twinned with: Nakaumi Nakaumi ( 中海 ) is a brackish lake located between Tottori and Shimane prefectures in Japan . The lake is enclosed by the Shimane Peninsula to the north and Yumigahama Peninsula to

306-578: Was dissolved in October 1998, its shares of JR-West were transferred to the government-owned Japan Railway Construction Public Corporation (JRCC), which merged into the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency (JRTT) as part of a bureaucratic reform package in October 2003. JRTT offered all of its shares in JR-West to the public in an international IPO in 2004, ending the era of government ownership of JR-West. JR-West

324-610: Was part of ancient Hōki Province and number remains from the Yayoi period and Kofun period have been found within city limits. In the Muromachi period , the area was dominated by the powerful Amago clan from Izumo Province and occupied an important position as a landing point for rice and navy anchorage. During the Sengoku period , it came under the control of the Mōri clan , and during

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