Yanagawa

Yanagawa is a metropolis placed in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of April 30, 2011, the metropolis has an expected populace of 71,848, with 24,507 households and a populace density of 934.55 humans in keeping with km². The total vicinity is 76.88 km². On March 21, 2005 the cities of Yamato and Mitsuhashi both from Yamato District had been merged into Yanagawa. A view of Yanagawa town. Yanagawa is famous with Japanese tourists due to its 470 km of huge canals. Yanagawa riverboats, referred to as donkobune, are used to take tourists across the metropolis.

In 1987 a video documentary turned into created by way of Studio Ghibli about those canals and their recovery. The Story of Yanagawa's Canals Yanagawa horiwari monogatari is extensively available and includes English subtitles. Yanagawa became at the start built in the mid-16th century by the Kamachi clan. Before then, it had been a traditional farming village, with the canals used for irrigation; Tanaka Yoshimasa ordered the canals to be maintained and constructed a fort in Yanagawa, which remains maintained nowadays.