Ichinoseki, Iwate

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Data of Ichinoseki (一関市)
Country	Japan
Region	Tohoku
Prefecture	Iwate Prefecture
Community Number	03209-3
Total population	124,774 (as of September 1, 2006)
Total Area	1,133.10km²
Surrounding municipalities	Iwate Prefecture Rikusentakata, Ōshū Nishiiwai District: Hiraizumi Higashiiwai District: Fujisawa Kesen District: Sumita Miyagi Prefecture Kurihara, Tome, Kesennuma Motoyoshi District: Motoyoshi Akita Prefecture Ogachi District: Higashinaruse
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Ichinoseki City Hall
Address	〒021-8501	Iwate-ken
Ichinoseki-shi, Takeyama-cho 7-2
Phone	0191-21-2111
External Link	The city of Ichinoseki Website
Location

Ichinoseki (一関市; -shi) is a city located towards the south of Iwate, Japan and situated on the Iwai River. After Morioka and Ōshū, it is the third largest city in the prefecture.

1 Description
2 Municipal Timeline
3 Sister Cities/Friendship Cities
- 3.1 Within Japan
4 Region
- 4.1 Education
5 Transportation
6 External links

[edit] Description

The current city of Ichinoseki became larger after 7 municipalities merged on September 20, 2005, and after the merger, the city is now equivalent to former Iwai District, and it is connected to Miyagi and Akita Prefectures. The population is nearly 125,000.

Due to factories belonging to large Japanese companies such as Sony and NEC being located in the industrial parkland zone of Ichinoseki, the city has a sizable population of Brazilian workers. The agricultural makeup of the city outside the centre is populated mostly by farmers, leading to an influx of Chinese and Filipino women as wives. As a result, the City of Ichinoseki has a varied ethnic makeup, although still a very small minority.

[edit] Municipal Timeline

April 1, 1948-The city of Ichinoseki (1st generation) was founded by merging with 2 towns and 2 villages.
January 1, 1955-The city of Ichinoseki (1st generation) merged with the villages of Genbi, Hagisho, Maikawa, and Yasakae to form the new city of Ichinoseki (2nd generation)
September 1, 1956-Due to the city limit changes, the city absorbed parts of the town Hiraizumi.
May 1, 1964-Due to the city limit changes, the city absorbed parts of the town Hiraizumi for the second time.
September 20, 2005, the towns of Daito, Higashiyama, and Senmaya, and the villages of Kawasaki and Murone (all from Higashiiwai District) and the town of Hanaizumi from Nishiiwai District merged with the former city of Ichinoseki (2nd generation) in a major creation of the new city (3rd generation). This creation approximately doubled the old city's population and nearly tripled its size.

[edit] Sister Cities/Friendship Cities

[edit] Within Japan

Miharu (Tamura District, Fukushima Prefecture)
- Signed between the former city of Ichinoseki on August 8, 1987
Kesennuma (Miyagi Prefecture)
- Signed between the former cities of Ichinoseki and Kesennuma on May 1, 1997
- Signed between the former city of Kesennuma and former town of Murone on May 8, 2003
Tanabe (Wakayama Prefecture)
- Signed between the former village of Murone and the town of Hongu on August 8, 1987
Yoshikawa (Saitama Prefecture)
- Signed by the former village of Murone on April 15, 1997

[edit] Region

[edit] Education

[edit] Special Schools

[edit] Elementary School

Akoogi Elementary School (一関市立赤荻小学校)
Ichinoseki Elementary School (一関市立一関小学校)
Genbi Elementary School (一関市立厳美小学校)
Takizawa Elementary School (一関市立滝沢小学校)
一関市立達古袋小学校
Nakasato Elementary School (一関市立中里小学校)
Hagisho Elementary School (一関市立萩荘小学校)
一関市立本寺小学校
Maikawa Elementary School (一関市立舞川小学校)
Minami Elementary School (一関市立南小学校)
Yasakae Elementary School (一関市立弥栄小学校)
一関市立山目小学校

一関市立老松小学校
Kanasawa Elementary School (一関市立金澤小学校)
Nagai Elementary School (一関市立永井小学校)
Hanaizumi Elementary School (一関市立花泉小学校)
一関市立日形小学校
Yushima Elementary School (一関市立油島小学校)
一関市立涌津小学校
一関市立内野小学校
一関市立大原小学校
一関市立興田小学校
一関市立猿沢小学校
一関市立渋民小学校
一関市立摺沢小学校
一関市立曽慶小学校

Iwashimizu Elementary School (一関市立磐清水小学校)
Okutama Elementary School (一関市立奥玉小学校)
一関市立清田小学校
一関市立小梨小学校
Senmaya Elementary School (一関市立千厩小学校)
Nagasaka Elementary School (一関市立長坂小学校)
Takodu Elementary School 一関市立田河津小学校
Matsukawa Elementary School (一関市立松川小学校)
一関市立折壁小学校
一関市立上折壁小学校
一関市立釘子小学校
一関市立津谷川小学校
Yokosawa Elementary School (一関市立浜横沢小学校)
Usugi Elementary School (一関市立薄衣小学校)
一関市立門崎小学校

[edit] Junior High School

Hanaizumi Junior High School (一関市立花泉中学校)
Ohara Junior High School (一関市立大原中学校)
一関市立興田中学校
一関市立猿沢中学校
Daito Elementary School (一関市立大東中学校)
Senmaya Junior High School (一関市立千厩中学校)
Higashiyama Junior High School (一関市立東山中学校)
Murone Junior High School (一関市立室根中学校)
Kawasaki Junior High School (一関市立川崎中学校)

[edit] High School

Ichinoseki Gakuin High School (一関学院高等学校)
Ichinoseki Shuko High School (一関修紅高等学校) (also has a preschool and a university)
Ichinoseki No. 1 High School (岩手県立一関第一高等学校)
Ichinoseki No. 2 High School (岩手県立一関第二高等学校)
Ichinoseki Tech High School (岩手県立一関工業高等学校)
Hanaizumi High School (岩手県立花泉高等学校)
Daito High School (岩手県立大東高等学校)
Senmaya High School (岩手県立千厩高等学校)

[edit] Kosen

Ichinoseki National College of Technology (一関工業高等専門学校)

[edit] Junior College

Shuko Junior College (修紅短期大学)

[edit] Transportation

Ichinoseki is located on the JR Tohoku Shinkansen (bullet train) Line connecting Ichinoseki with Tokyo. It is also located on the Tohoku Honsen train line, which connects Ichinoseki and the prefecture's capital, Morioka.