Noshiro, Akita

Noshiro 能代市
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Location of Noshiro in Akita
Noshiro
Coordinates:
Country	Japan
Region	Tōhoku
Prefecture	Akita
Government
• Mayor	Saitō Shigenobu (斉藤滋宣?)
Area
• Total	426.74 km2 (164.8 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	58,029
• Density	136/km2 (352.2/sq mi)
Time zone	Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)
Phone number	0185-52-2111
Address	1-3 Uemachi, Noshiro-shi, Akita-ken 016-8501
Website	City of Noshiro

For the ship, see Japanese cruiser Noshiro

Noshiro (能代市, Noshiro-shi^?) is a city located in Akita, Japan.

The city is known within Japan for the basketball team of Noshiro Technical High School (能代工業高校, Noshiro Kōgyō Kōkō^?). The city merged with the town of Futatsui on March 21, 2006 to become the new city of Noshiro. Noshiro was the site in 770 AD where Imperial Navies arrived and established Japan's first settlement in Oshu. (Emishi territory).

Odate-Noshiro Airport in nearby Kitaakita serves the city.

Contents 1 Geography 1.1 Surrounding Municipalities 2 History 3 Sister cities 4 festival events 5 Transportation 5.1 Airport 6 Famous Personages 7 References 8 External links

Geography

Surrounding Municipalities

• Kitaakita
• Yamamoto District: Fujisato, Mitane, Happo
• Kitaakita District: Kamikoani

History

• October 1, 1940 - The town of Noshirominato and the villages of Shinonome (東雲村) and Sakaki (榊村) merged to form the city of Noshiro.
• March 21, 2006 - The city merged with the town of Futatsui from Yamamoto District to form the new city of Noshiro.^[1]

Sister cities

• Wrangell, Alaska (1960)

• Galactic Federation - at the time of the Space Science Institute's research facilities were friendly city by city(1987)
  • Sanriku, ofunato-kyouwakoku (Ōfunato, Iwate)
  • Saku-kyouwakoku (Saku, Nagano)
  • Sagamihara-kyouwakoku (Sagamihara, Kanagawa)
  • Utchinourakimotuki-kyouwakoku (Uchinoura, Kagoshima)

festival events

• Noshiro space event - A JAXA vast multi-purpose test and the length of pine forest surrounded by 3 km, width of the flat 500m in areas where the Council of Noshiro event space to land in Japan this space to use for education and ideas, From the summer of 2005 Noshiro, Akita and Akita Prefecture, in cooperation with the event held every summer in the universe.
• Noshiro Port Fireworks Festival in 2008 was 150,000 people visiting.
• Onagori Festival in Noshiro Kanto matsuri, Aomori Nebuta Matsuri, Samba Carnival and more.

in 2008 was 250,000 people visiting.

Transportation

Airport

• Odate-Noshiro airport - opened in 1998.

Famous Personages

• Takashi Ono
• Hisashi Yamada
• Sadatoshi Sugawara

References

External links

• Noshiro official website (Japanese)
• Noshiro official website (English) (machine translated)

Akita Prefecture Cities Akita Daisen Katagami Kazuno Kitaakita Nikaho Noshiro Oga Ōdate Semboku Yokote Yurihonjō Yuzawa Kazuno District Kosaka Kitaakita District Kamikoani Minamiakita District Gojōme Hachirōgata Ikawa Ōgata Ogachi District Higashinaruse Ugo Semboku District Misato Yamamoto District Fujisato Happō Mitane