Ikeda

Ikeda is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. As of February 2017, the town had an estimated population of 103,028 and a population density of 4,700 people consistent with km2. The general region is 22.09 km2. In the Edo period, Ikeda had a castle occupied by way of a daimyo, the seat of a 50,000-koku domain. It changed into famous for Ikeda-zumi Ikeda charcoal traded by using Ikeda merchants. In cha no yu Ikeda-zumi is cherished because of its excessive best even these days.

The town become founded formally on April 29, 1939. It turned into advanced as an city metropolis by means of a nearby railway agency, Hankyu Dentetsu. Its founder Kobayashi Ichizo Itsuo lived there. On June 8, 2001, the Osaka faculty bloodbath took place in this city. A guy entered an essential school and fatally stabbed eight kids in the college. Many students have suffered post-traumatic pressure sickness. To keep away from flashback memories of the bloodbath and to improve school security, the homes were made over and subsequently occupied in April 2004.

On September 14, 2004, Mamoru Takuma become executed for the murders. Ikeda boasts several cultural points of interest: the Itsuo Art Museum holds the Itsuo Collection which is specially Japanese artwork for cha-no-yu; Ikeda Bunko holds collections on Takarazuka and other substances associated with Hankyu Dentetsu. There is a municipal zoo named Satsukiyama Zoo. It is domestic to the Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum.