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Kyoto Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it t ...

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Prefectures in

Kansai region The or the lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū. The region includes the prefectures of Nara, Wakayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo and Shiga, often also Mie, sometimes Fukui, Tokushima and Tottori. The metropol ...

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. The name is commonly shortened to or . The name Keihanna is constructed by extracting a representative kanji from Kyoto, Osaka, and Nara. It is about south of the city of

and east of the city of

. The city was constructed to help the advancement of creative arts, sciences, and research, as well as to spur the creation of new industries and cultures.

Location

Kansai Science City is located in portions of the following eight and , in three

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Osaka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Osaka Prefecture has a population of 8,778,035 () and has a geographic area of . Osaka Prefecture borders Hyōgo Prefecture to the northwest, Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Nara ...

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Kyoto Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Kyoto Prefecture has a population of 2,561,358 () and has a geographic area of . Kyoto Prefecture borders Fukui Prefecture to the northeast, Shiga Prefecture ...

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Nara Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Nara Prefecture has a population of 1,321,805 and has a geographic area of . Nara Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Osaka Prefecture to the ...

** ** Out of these, Seika in Kyoto Prefecture is completely inside the Kansai Science City. The overall area of the Kansai Science City is , with an estimated population of 250,000. There are 12 "Cultural and Academic Research Zones" within the Kansai Science City, encompassing , with an estimated population of 100,000. Seika & Nishikizu is the central district of this city. Fugenji and Kita-Tawara are science districts in land use adjustment. ;Aerial photographs Himuro and Tsuda District aerial photo 2021.jpg, Himuro & Tsuda Kiyotaki and Muroike District aerial photo 2021.jpg, Kiyotaki & Muroike Tawara District aerial photo 2021.jpg, Tawara Tanabe District aerial photo 2021.jpg, Tanabe Minami-Tanabe and Komada District aerial photo 2021.jpg, Minamitanabe & Komada Seika and Nishikizu District aerial photo 2021.jpg, Seika & Nishikizu Heijo and Soraku District aerial photo 2021.jpg, Heijo & Soraku Kizu District aerial photo 2021.jpg, Kizu Takayama District aerial photo 2021.jpg, Takayama Heijo Palace Site aerial photo 2021.jpg, Heijo Palace Site

Main research institutes and universities

Universities

*Shijonawate Campus, Osaka Electro-Communication University *

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- Kyotanabe Campus, Tatara Campus, and Gakken Toshi Campus *Kyotanabe Campus, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts *Institute of Free electron laser (iFEL), Osaka University * Nara Institute of Science and Technology *Seika Campus, Kyoto Prefectural University *Experimental Farm,

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Research institutes

*Universal Communication Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) *Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) *Technology Research Laboratory, Shimadzu *Keihanna Research Center,

Kyocera is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational ceramics and electronics manufacturer headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded as in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori and renamed in 1982. It manufactures industrial ceramics, solar power genera ...

optical Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultravio ...

and

electronic devices Electronics is a scientific and engineering discipline that studies and applies the principles of physics to design, create, and operate devices that manipulate electrons and other electrically charged particles. It is a subfield of physics and ...

, solar cells, advanced thin-film technologies *Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST) *Keihanna Site,

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*Keihanna Technology Innovation Center, OMRON *International Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) *Nara Research and Development Center, Santen Pharmaceutical * Rohto Research Village Kyoto *Kansai Electronic Industry Development Center - supported by the

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* Ion Technology Center *Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) - supported by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry *Keihanna Campus, Riken *

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World Research Center * Nidec Center for Industrial Science *Keihanna Area, NTT Communication Science Laboratories * Nara Research Institute for Cultural Properties

Other

* Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library * Heijō Palace *Keihanna Open Innovation Center @Kyoto (KICK) *Keihanna Plaza

Transportation

* Gakkentoshi Line, West Japan Railway Company (JR West) * Nara Line (JR West) * Kyoto Line,

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(Kintetsu) * Keihanna Line (Kintetsu) *

Shin-Meishin Expressway The or simply ''Shin-Meishin'' for short is an expressway, linking Mie prefecture to Hyōgo Prefecture, which is partially open and partially under construction. The expressways current length as of February 2008 is 49.7 km. It connects t ...

* Second Keihan Highway * Keinawa Expressway In 2016, a government committee planning the final Kyoto-Osaka segment of the

Hokuriku Shinkansen The Hokuriku Shinkansen () is a high-speed Shinkansen railway line connecting Tokyo with Tsuruga, Fukui, Tsuruga in the Hokuriku region of Japan. It is jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and West Japan Railway Company (JR ...

proposed routing the new high-speed line through Kyōtanabe. About 100 minutes by bus from

Kansai International Airport Kansai International Airport (), commonly known as Kankū (; ), is the primary international airport in the Keihanshin, Greater Osaka Area of Japan and the closest international airport to the cities of Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe. It is located on ...

Notes

References

This article was translated from a portion of the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved on December 10, 2006.

External links

Keihanna Science City
- Public Foundation of Kansai Research Institute

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