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Rokkō Island
Rokkō Island (六甲アイランド, Rokkō Airando) is a man-made island in Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan. Located in the southeast region of the Port of Kobe, the island has a 3.4 km × 2 km (2.1 mi × 1.2 mi) rectangular shape and covers 5.80 km2 (2.24 sq mi). The island's central region features a residential area, separated from the industrial and port zones by a green belt. International schools on the island serve students from abroad, alongside certain exclusive foreign condominiums built when Procter & Gamble's Asia headquarters were in the vicinity.
Kobe is a long and narrow city situated between the coast to the south and the Rokkō Mountains to the north. Due to the city's geographic constraints and growing population, there was limited space for urban expansion. This is a common problem in Japan, as dense forests cover much of the land. As a solution, urban planners in Kobe created the island using rock excavated from nearby mountains.
Workers used the tops from heavily wooded local mountains to the northwest of the city. A ten-mile-long underground conveyor belt was created to move the reclaimed land to the sea. A conveyor carried the rock and earth to barges, which dumped their contents two miles out into the bay. The project took almost twenty years to complete, from 1973 until 1992. The 1,400 acres (570 ha) island is shaped like a rectangle.
Rokkō Island is not the first man-made island in Kobe. Port Island was completed in the same area in 1987, with later additions being built to the original structure in 2009. In 1173, Taira no Kiyomori, a military leader of the late Heian period, also built an island known as Kyogashima.
There are two main forms of public transportation to the island: the Kobe Minato Kanko Bus and the Rokkō Liner. The Rokkō liner is an automated guideway transit system that runs on an elevated viaduct through the central axis of the island and connects to the mainland. The Rokkō Liner stops at three stations on the island: Marine Park, Island Center, and Island Kita-Guchi. It connects Rokkō Island to Minami Uozaki and Uozaki Station on the Hanshin Line, and Sumiyoshi Station on the JR Kobe Line.
The Harbor Highway is a toll road that links Sannomiya and Port Island with Rokko Island. The Hanshin Expressway Route 5 Wangan Route heads to Osaka. Limousine buses departing from the Kobe Bay Sheraton Hotel take passengers to Kansai Airport or Universal Studios Japan. Ferry boats (Hankyu Ferry and Ferry Sunflower) leave the island every day for Kyushu and Shikoku.
The major business on the island is based around the Kobe-Osaka International Port Corporation which operates port container terminals, port liner berths and port ferry terminals. Several manufacturing companies also operate on the island including the chocolatier, Morozoff Ltd. The Asia One Center used to house the P&G Japan Head Office. Rokkō Island also features businesses catering to residents and tourists including two hotels, shopping, and restaurants.
All are operated by Kobe municipality:
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Rokkō Island
Rokkō Island (六甲アイランド, Rokkō Airando) is a man-made island in Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan. Located in the southeast region of the Port of Kobe, the island has a 3.4 km × 2 km (2.1 mi × 1.2 mi) rectangular shape and covers 5.80 km2 (2.24 sq mi). The island's central region features a residential area, separated from the industrial and port zones by a green belt. International schools on the island serve students from abroad, alongside certain exclusive foreign condominiums built when Procter & Gamble's Asia headquarters were in the vicinity.
Kobe is a long and narrow city situated between the coast to the south and the Rokkō Mountains to the north. Due to the city's geographic constraints and growing population, there was limited space for urban expansion. This is a common problem in Japan, as dense forests cover much of the land. As a solution, urban planners in Kobe created the island using rock excavated from nearby mountains.
Workers used the tops from heavily wooded local mountains to the northwest of the city. A ten-mile-long underground conveyor belt was created to move the reclaimed land to the sea. A conveyor carried the rock and earth to barges, which dumped their contents two miles out into the bay. The project took almost twenty years to complete, from 1973 until 1992. The 1,400 acres (570 ha) island is shaped like a rectangle.
Rokkō Island is not the first man-made island in Kobe. Port Island was completed in the same area in 1987, with later additions being built to the original structure in 2009. In 1173, Taira no Kiyomori, a military leader of the late Heian period, also built an island known as Kyogashima.
There are two main forms of public transportation to the island: the Kobe Minato Kanko Bus and the Rokkō Liner. The Rokkō liner is an automated guideway transit system that runs on an elevated viaduct through the central axis of the island and connects to the mainland. The Rokkō Liner stops at three stations on the island: Marine Park, Island Center, and Island Kita-Guchi. It connects Rokkō Island to Minami Uozaki and Uozaki Station on the Hanshin Line, and Sumiyoshi Station on the JR Kobe Line.
The Harbor Highway is a toll road that links Sannomiya and Port Island with Rokko Island. The Hanshin Expressway Route 5 Wangan Route heads to Osaka. Limousine buses departing from the Kobe Bay Sheraton Hotel take passengers to Kansai Airport or Universal Studios Japan. Ferry boats (Hankyu Ferry and Ferry Sunflower) leave the island every day for Kyushu and Shikoku.
The major business on the island is based around the Kobe-Osaka International Port Corporation which operates port container terminals, port liner berths and port ferry terminals. Several manufacturing companies also operate on the island including the chocolatier, Morozoff Ltd. The Asia One Center used to house the P&G Japan Head Office. Rokkō Island also features businesses catering to residents and tourists including two hotels, shopping, and restaurants.
All are operated by Kobe municipality:
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