Motomiya

Motomiya is a city located in north-imperative Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 April 2018, the metropolis had an predicted populace of 30,629 in 10,448 families and a populace density of 347 folks in step with km². The overall vicinity of the town became 88.02 square kilometres. It is the smallest town in Fukushima Prefecture, each in phrases of population and length. The current city of Motomiya was set up on January 1, 2007, with the aid of the merger of the previous town of Motomiya absorbing the village of Shirasawa each from Adachi District.

The vicinity of gift-day Motomiya turned into a part of historical Mutsu Province. The oldest recognised report refers back to the area of Motomiya as "Honmoku”. Later within the Nara duration, the characters for Honmoku had been rewritten as also pronounceable as Motome. Motome became then rewritten as. Then in the eleventh century, it became the contemporary Motomiya. The origins of the name Motomiya, actually which means "Central Shrine," talk over with the Adatara Jinja a Shinto shrine within the metropolis's northern district.