Harima Science Garden City(播磨科学公園都市, Harima-Kagaku-Koen-Toshi) is a city constructed by opening up a hilly area in Harima, the southern-west part of Hyogo Prefecture.
Under the guidance of prominent architects and landscape design experts from Japan and abroad (Arata Isozaki, Tadao Ando, Mari Watanabe, Peter Walker, etc.
[2] For this reason, especially in the early stages of the project, a number of highly designed buildings were built by the aforementioned architects that reflect the current trends in architectural design at the time of the project (1980s), such as postmodern architecture.
In 1997, a "Machibiraki Festival" was held to celebrate the opening of SPring-8, the centerpiece of the project.
The buses from Aioi station to SPring-8 run about every 30 minutes from Mondays to Fridays and every 1 hour on Saturdays and Sundays by West-Shinki.