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Nishinomiya is an important commercial and shipping city in the Kansai region with the third largest population in Hyōgo Prefecture. Nishinomiya is best known as the home of Kōshien Stadium, where the Hanshin Tigers baseball team plays home games and where Japan's annual high school baseball championship is held.
As the team was officially based within Hyogo Prefecture (and not Kobe city), it played home games at various towns within the prefecture. For the 2015-2016 season, the Nishinomiya Storks will play about 40% (around ten) and since 2016-2017 season, around two-thirds of their home games at the Nishinomiya City Central Gymnasium .
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Nishinomiya Shrine (西宮神社, Nishinomiya jinja) is a Shinto shrine in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan. It is the head shrine of the Ebisu sect of Shinto, and it is said that there are about 3,500 shrines under it.
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Written by JKC in Short Trips. The city of Nishinomiya is located in the south-east region of Hyogo Prefecture. For fans of Studio Ghibli, you’ll probably recognize Nishinomiya as the setting for the old-time classic, Grave of the Fireflies.
Nishinomiya ( 西宮) is a city of about 485,000 (2022) in Hyogo prefecture, Japan, between Kobe and Osaka. Understand. The city is the setting for much of the Studio Ghibli film Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓, hotaru no haka ), which is based on a novel by Akiyuki Nosaka.
Geography. Nishinomiya is located in southeast Hyōgo Prefecture between the cities of Kobe and Osaka. It is bordered by Osaka Bay to the south, the cities of Amagasaki, Itami and Takarazuka along the Mukogawa and Nigawa rivers to the east and by a part of the Rokkō Mountains and Kobe to the north.
