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18-695: Wakayama is located at the northwest corner of Wakayama Prefecture, bordered by Osaka Prefecture to the north and the Kii Channel and Kitan Strait to the west. It is located on the mouth of the Kinokawa River with the main urban center of the city on the river's left bank. Hyōgo Prefecture Osaka Prefecture Wakayama Prefecture Wakayama has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Wakayama

36-566: A major employer, although the city suffered considerably when former Sumitomo Steel shifted much of its production to China. Other major employers include Kao Corporation and Mitsubishi Electric . Wakayama has 50 public elementary schools, 19 public middle schools and one public high school operated by the city government and one private elementary school and three private middle schools. The Wakayama Prefectural Board of Education operates two public middle schools and 10 public high schools. There are also four private high schools. In addition, there

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

72-642: 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

90-621: A sister-city relationship with the city of Jinan mainly due to the efforts of Hiroshi Yamazaki ( 山崎 宏 ) , who was an escaped medic in the Imperial Japanese Army and stayed in China after the war. He married and runs his own clinic in China. In 1976, he visited Wakayama after nearly 40 years. Wakayama Prefecture is famous across Japan for its umeboshi (salty pickled plums) and mikan (mandarins). Kii Channel The Kii Channel ( 紀伊水道 , Kii-suidō ) , also called

108-526: Is 15.6 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1713 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.4 °C, and lowest in January, at around 5.4 °C. The area is subject to typhoons in summer. Per Japanese census data, the population of Wakayama peaked in the 1980s and has been declining slowly since. The area of the modern city of Wakayama

126-595: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 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 is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange , is a constituent of

144-701: Is connected to Osaka Bay via the Kitan Strait and to Harima Nada (the eastern part of the Inland Sea) by the Naruto Strait . Western maps from the 19th century also refer to this waterway as the Linschoten Strait . This Hyōgo Prefecture location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Tokushima location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Wakayama location article

162-862: Is one elementary school and one high school run by Wakayama University. The prefecture also operates five special education school for the handicapped, and one more is operated by Wakayama University. The city has one North Korean school , Wakayama Korean Elementary and Middle School  [ ja ] ( 和歌山朝鮮初中級学校 ) . [REDACTED] JR West – Hanwa Line [REDACTED] JR West – Kisei Main Line [REDACTED] JR West – Wakayama Line [REDACTED] Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line [REDACTED] Nankai Electric Railway Nankai Main Line [REDACTED] Nankai Electric Railway Wakayamako Line [REDACTED] Nankai Electric Railway Kada Line Wakayama has sister-city relationships with four overseas cities: Wakayama City formed

180-874: The Kii Strait , is a strait separating the Japanese island of Shikoku from the Kii Peninsula on the main island of Honshū . This strait connects the Inland Sea with the Pacific Ocean . The name of the strait derives from Kii Province , a former province on the Kii Peninsula. The strait is surrounded by Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku, Wakayama Prefecture on Honshū, and the southern coast of Awaji Island in Hyōgo Prefecture . It

198-720: 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 ,

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216-693: The Wakayama Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is divided between Wakayama 1st district and Wakayama 2nd district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Wakayama is the main commercial city of northern Wakayama and is the largest city in Wakayama Prefecture. Primary industries include agriculture, notably rice and citrus fruits, and commercial fishing . Secondary industries are centered around electronics and heavy industry. Nippon Steel remains

234-511: 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

252-522: The creation of the modern municipalities system. The city suffered 1208 deaths and 1560 critically wounded in the July 9, 1945 Bombing of Wakayama during World War II , which destroyed more than half of the urban area. On April 1, 1997, Wakayama attained core city status, with increased local autonomy. Wakayama has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 38 members. Wakayama contributes 15 members to

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

288-704: Was a port on the Kinokawa River, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi constructed the predecessor of Wakayama Castle during his conquest of Kii Province during the Sengoku period . During the Edo period , the castle town at the base of Wakayama Castle grew and prospered under the rule of the Kii Tokugawa clan as the center of Kishū Domain . After the Meiji restoration , Wakayama was granted city status on April 1, 1889 with

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

324-896: Was the center of ancient Kii Province , and the Iwase-Senzuka Kofun Cluster is one of the largest clusters of kofun burial mounds in Japan. The area the home of the Kii Kuni no miyatsuko , a local king ruling the Kinokawa River Valley prior to the rise of the Yamato State . During the Nara period priests from Tang China built the Kimii-dera temple . From the Muromachi period , Waka-no-ura

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