Hanamaki

Hanamaki is a metropolis in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. As of 28 February 2017, the city had an predicted populace of 97,401, and a populace density of 107 individuals consistent with km2, in 36,859 households. The total location of the city is 908.39 square kilometres. Hanamaki is famous because the birthplace of Kenji Miyazawa and for its hot spring motels. The location of present-day Hanamaki turned into a part of historic Mutsu Province, and has been settled seeing that at the least the Jomon period.

During the Sengoku period, the area was dominated by means of numerous samurai clans before coming beneath the manipulate of the Nambu clan all through the Edo length, who ruled Morioka Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. The metropolis advanced as a publish statin at the Oshu Kaido toll road all through the Edo length. In the Meiji length, with the status quo of the model municipalities system on April 1, 1889, the modern cities of Hanamaki and Hanamaki-Kawaguchi were created inside Hienuki District, Iwate.

The cities were merged on April 10, 1929, with the merged municipality maintaining the name of Hanamaki. On April 1, 1954, the villages of Yuguchi, Yumoto, Miyanome, Yasawa and Ohta had been annexed by using Hanamaki. An extra village, Sasama, joined the following year. In January 2006, Hanamaki merged with the towns of Ishidoriya, hasama, therefore dissolving Hienuki District, and with the town of Towa from Waga District.