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About Iwanai

Iwanai is a city placed in Shiribeshi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. As of September 2016, the city has an estimated populace of 13,210. The general area is 70.64 km². Iwanai is one of the oldest towns in the area. Unlike many Hokkaido cities, it predates the Meiji Restoration, having started out as a seasonal fishing vicinity 1450, and growing right into a year-spherical village within the mid-18th century. Its legitimate founding date is 1751. Citizens of Iwanai whose households were native for plenty generations have a weird "fisherman" accessory to their Japanese, wonderful to others dwelling in the area.

Most Hokkaido residents talk Kanto, or Tokyo region, dialect; their ancestors emigrated from the Kanto location within the past due nineteenth century. Unfortunately, a massive fire in 1954 destroyed maximum of the traditional buildings, as they were typically timber systems. Modern Iwanai is a lot more Western in style, although there are nevertheless giant Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples intact or rebuilt inside the conventional fashion. The metropolis also has a large shrine festival held each July.

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