Mito
Mito-shi 水 戸 市 |
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Geographical location in Japan | ||
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Region : | Kanto | |
Prefecture : | Ibaraki | |
Coordinates : | 36 ° 22 ' N , 140 ° 28' E | |
Basic data | ||
Surface: | 217.45 km² | |
Residents : | 269,661 (October 1, 2019) |
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Population density : | 1240 inhabitants per km² | |
Community key : | 08201-5 | |
Symbols | ||
Flag / coat of arms: | ||
Tree : | Ume | |
Flower : | Hagi shrub | |
Bird : | Motacilla alba lugens | |
town hall | ||
Address : |
Mito City Hall 1 - 4 - 1 , Chūō Mito -shi Ibaraki 310-8610 |
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Website URL: | http://www.mitoic.or.jp/en/index.html | |
Location Mitos in Ibaraki Prefecture | ||
Mito ( Japanese 水 戸 市 , - shi ) is a city and the administrative seat of Ibaraki Prefecture on Honshū, the main island of Japan , about 140 km northeast of Tokyo . Mito is an important rail hub.
In addition to the University of Ibaraki , there is also a tobacco and textile industry here.
history
Mito was already a castle town in the Sengoku period . After Tokugawa Ieyasu had taken power in the country, he gave Mito as a fief in 1602 to his fifth son, then to the tenth, and finally in 1609 to the eleventh son Tokugawa Yorifusa ( 徳 川 頼 房 ; 1603–1661), who was a member of the “Three honorable families ”( Gosanke ) and was therefore entitled to inheritance if the main line should die out. In fact, the last shogun came from the Mito family.
In 1841, Tokugawa Nariaki created an educational establishment under the name Kōdōkan , which, with a nationalist-Confucianist mind, developed the Mitogaku . Under the patronage of several feudal lords, it gave decisive intellectual impulses for the political theory of the time.
During the Second World War , the Mito-born 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Japanese Army was almost completely destroyed in the Battle of Peleliu . Out of about 3,000 regimental members only 34 survived. Towards the end of the war, on August 2, 1945, a bomb attack by B-29 took place , which destroyed three quarters of the city by fire.
The natural disaster of the Tōhoku earthquake on March 11, 2011 with the subsequent tsunami claimed seven deaths in Mito. 164 residential buildings were completely destroyed and 1,905 others were partially destroyed.
Attractions
The townscape includes the ramparts of the former Mito Castle with a park and the main Kōdōkan building.
Mito owns one of the " Three Famous Gardens of Japan ", the Kairaku-en .
The Art Tower Mito is part of the municipal art museum. Another art museum is the Museum of Modern Art Ibaraki with Japanese and Western art from the 19th and 20th centuries.
traffic
- Street:
- Jōban highway to Tokyo or Iwaki
- National Road 6 to Tokyo or Sendai
- Train:
- JR Jōban Line to Ueno and Sendai
- JR Mito Line , to Oyama
- JR Suigun Line , to Kōriyama
Sports
Mito is the home of the Mito Hollyhock football club .
Town twinning
- Tsuruga , Japan, since 1964
- Hikone , Japan, since 1968
- Takamatsu , Japan, since 1974
- Anaheim , United States, since 1976
- Chongqing , People's Republic of China, since 2000
Neighboring cities and communities
sons and daughters of the town
- Yokoyama Taikan (1868–1958), painter
- Hitachiyama Taniemon (1874-1922), sumo wrestler
- Kurita Takeo (1889–1977), Vice Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy
- Kinji Fukasaku (1930–2003), film director, film producer and screenwriter
- Shin'ichirō Ikebe (* 1943), composer
- Satoshi Takeishi (* 1962), jazz musician
- Stomu Takeishi (* 1964), jazz musician
- Musōyama Masashi (* 1972), sumo wrestler
- Miyabiyama Tetsushi (* 1977), sumo wrestler
- Yuzuru Shimada (* 1990), soccer player
- Taiki Tamukai (* 1992), soccer player
- Ayase Ueda (* 1998), football player
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 平 成 23 年 (2011 年) 東北 地方 太平洋 沖 地震 (東 日本 大 震災) に つ い て (第 157 報) ( Memento of March 18, 2018 on WebCite ) ( PDF ( Memento of March 18, 2018 on WebCite )), 総 務 省 消防庁 (Fire and Disaster Management Agency), 157th report, March 7, 2018.