is one of the eight wards

Wards of Japan

A is a subdivision of one of the cities of Japan that is large enough to have been designated by government ordinance. Wards are used to subdivide each city designated by government ordinance...

 of the city of Hiroshima

Hiroshima

is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...

, located in the south of the former district of Asa.

Asa-gun consisted of Gion-cho, Yasufuruichi-cho, Sato-cho, Numata-cho. After being merged with Hiroshima in 1973, this ward was named Asaminami-ku.
The largest station of Astramline Vehicles: a new traffic system is in Asaminami-ku. This system brought population inflow because of increasing houses.

As of April 1, 2006, the ward has an estimated population

Population

A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...

 of 218,107 and a density

Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans...

 of 1,861.14 persons per km². The total area is 117.19 km².

JR-Kabe line's station

• Aki-nagatsuka,
• Shimo-gion,
• Furuichi-bashi,
• Oomachi,
• Midorii,
• Shichigenjaya,
• Bairin,
• Kamiyagi
• Nishao-kri

Astram Line's Stations

• Gion-shinbashi-kita,
• Nishihara,
• Nakasuji,
• Furuichi,
• Omachi,
• Bishamondai,
• Yasuhigashi,
• Kamiyasu,
• Takatori,
• Chorakuji,
• Tomo,
• Obara,
• Tomo-chuo,
• Ozuka,
• Koiki-koen-mae
• Kokoai-toshi-rau

Japan highway public corporation

• Sanyō motor road
• Hiroshima-IC (Inter Change=exit)
• Hiroshima-nishi-seifuushinto IC Astramline is managed by Hiroshima Rapid Transit.

Education

• Hiroshima City University
  Hiroshima City University
  is a public university at Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan, founded in 1994, educating both undergraduates and graduate students. HCU is especially distinctive for its Peace Studies program, in line with Hiroshima's status as an international city of peace....
  
  
• Hiroshima University of Economics
  Hiroshima University of Economics
  is a private university in Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan, established in 1967.-External links:*...
  
  
• Hiroshima Shudo University
  Hiroshima Shudo University
  is a private university in Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan. The predecessor of the school, Hiroshima Domain's Han school, was founded in 1725. It was chartered as a junior college in 1952 and became a four-year college in 1960. The school adopted the present name in 1973.-External links:*...
  
  
• Yasuda Women's University
  Yasuda Women's University
  is a private women's college in Asaminami, Hiroshima, Japan. The predecessor of the school was established by Riyou Yasuda and others in 1915 and was chartered as a junior women's college in 1955.-External links:*...
  
  
• Hiroshima culture junior college

Agriculture

They used to produce Hiroshimana-zuke in Satou-chou. It is said that Hiroshimana-zuke had produced since the Edo

Edo

, also romanized as Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of the Japanese capital Tokyo, and was the seat of power for the Tokugawa shogunate which ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868...

period.