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Himeji

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Himeji (hēmā`jē), city (1990 pop. 454,360), Hyogo prefecture, SW Honshu, Japan. A railroad and market center, it manufactures cotton textiles and supplies iron and steel for the Osaka-Kobe industrial area. The ruins of a 14th-century castle have been completely restored.
Himeji
a city in central Japan, on W Honshu: cotton textile centre. Pop.: 475 892 (2002 est.)

Himeji 

a city and port in Japan, on the island of Honshu; situated on the Seto Sea at the mouth of the Ichi River, in Hyogo Prefecture. Population, 426,600 (1973). Himeji, an industrial center in the Osaka-Kobe industrial region, has enterprises of the machinebuilding, textile, chemical, woodworking, food-processing, and oil-refining industries. A large metallurgical combine is located nearby.



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Fuji, Himeji Castle, Tokyo, Kyoto and Yakushima Island.
The company had planned to create an oil reserve in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, but gave up on the idea on the grounds that shrinking oil demand due to the economic recession has rendered such a service unnecessary, resulting in the idling of the land set aside for the project.
He boarded the taxi Sunday evening in the western city of Himeji in Hyogo prefecture and went all the way to Ibaraki, northeast of Tokyo.
 
 
 
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