Yahatahigashi-ku, Kitakyūshū

Location of Yahatahigashi-ku in Kitakyūshū

Yahatahigashi-ku (八幡東区) is a ward of Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka, Japan. It is the second smallest ward in Kitakyūshū after Tobata ward at only 36.36 square kilometres. Residents have a very high average age, one of the highest in Japan. The population was 77,077 at the end of September 2003.

Facilities

The ward contains the Space World amusement park. It also contains the Kawachi Dam, built to provide cooling water for the Yahata steelworks in the 1920s. When the dam was built, it was the largest in Asia.

An onsen (hot spring) facility, Ajisai no Yu, has recently been built and includes outdoor bathing (rotenburo).

External links

Media related to Yahatahigashi-ku, Kitakyūshū at Wikimedia Commons

Fukuoka Prefecture

Fukuoka (capital)

Wards of Fukuoka	Higashi Hakata Chūō Minami Nishi Jōnan Sawara

Wards of Kitakyushu	Moji Wakamatsu Tobata Kokurakita Kokuraminami Yahatahigashi Yahatanishi

Core city	Kurume

Cities	Asakura Buzen Chikugo Chikushino Dazaifu Fukutsu Iizuka Itoshima Kasuga Kama Koga Miyama Miyawaka Munakata Nakama Nōgata Ogōri Ōkawa Ōmuta Ōnojō Tagawa Ukiha Yame Yanagawa Yukuhashi

Asakura District	Chikuzen Tōhō

Chikujō District	Chikujō Kōge Yoshitomi

Chikushi District	Nakagawa

Kaho District	Keisen

Kasuya District	Hisayama Kasuya Sasaguri Shime Shingū Sue Umi

Kurate District	Kotake Kurate

Mii District	Tachiarai

Miyako District	Kanda Miyako

Mizuma District	Ōki

Onga District	Ashiya Mizumaki Okagaki Onga

Tagawa District	Aka Fukuchi Itoda Kawara Kawasaki Ōtō Soeda

Yame District	Hirokawa

List of mergers in Fukuoka Prefecture

Coordinates: 33°51′49″N 130°48′43″E / 33.86361°N 130.81194°E / 33.86361; 130.81194

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