1 Tsurumi Ward Profile

　Tsurumi Ward is located in the northeastern part of the city and was established on October 1, 1927 due to the enforcement of Yokohama City. The name "Tsurumi" also appears from historical materials of the Kamakura period, and there is a theory that the name was given from the legend that Yoritomo Minamoto released a crane here, but "Tsurumi" regardless of "Tsurumi" In the area around waterways and rivers, "Mi" means "around, tour", and "Tsurumi" also represents the meandering terrain of the Tsurumi River.
　Since the Edo period, Tsurumi has been bustling with rivers and highways by people who travel along the Tsurumi River and the Tokaido. In the coastal area where fisheries flourished, landfills have progressed since the Meiji era, and have supported Japan's heavy chemical industry as the core of the Keihin Industrial Zone. After the war, along with high economic growth, the concentration of commerce and industry and population growth progressed.
　The current Tsurumi Ward has a population of more than 290,005 and consists of hills with residential areas, a river town along the Tsurumi River, and a seaside town.
　"Hill Town" has rich nature such as prefectural Mitsuike Park and Shishigaya Shimin-no-Mori, and you can enjoy beautiful scenery of the four seasons. In addition, Yokomizo Yashiki, a designated cultural property of Yokohama City, and the former Sawano Ie Nagayamon (commonly known as "Baba no Akamon") are preserved and utilized, and town development utilizing the history is being carried out. .
　In the “River Town” centered on the Tsurumi River, the use of factories to houses is progressing, making it a town where industry, commerce, and housing are mixed. The Tsurumi River is an internationally rich area where many foreigners live, and the Tsurumi River has become a symbol of the Tsurumi Ward that many inhabitants of the ward take a walk.
　In the seaside area of the seaside area, RIKEN Yokohama Campus, a world-class research facility for life sciences, and the Yokohama City Industry-Academia Collaborative Research Center, which promotes industry-academia collaboration, have been developed in the Suehiro area. Reorganization as a large research base = Yokohama Science Frontier.