Ichinoseki

Ichinoseki is a town positioned in Iwate Prefecture, in the Tohoku vicinity of northern Japan. As of 1 June 2017, the metropolis had a populace of 120,008 and a population density of 95.5 people per km2 in 46,338 households. It is presently the second largest city by using populace within the prefecture, after Morioka. The total vicinity of the metropolis become 1,256.42 rectangular kilometres. The area of present-day Ichinoseki changed into a part of historic Mutsu Province, and has been settled seeing that at the least the Japanese Paleolithic duration.

The location turned into inhabited by the Emishi people, and got here underneath the control of the Yamato dynasty for the duration of the early Heian duration. During the Heian duration, it became controlled by using the Abe extended family, accompanied with the aid of the Northern Fujiwara extended family of Hiraizumi. During the Sengoku duration, The metropolis of Ichinoseki was set up inside Nishiiwai District, Iwate on April 1, 1889 with the status quo of the municipality system.