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Hakata Island 伯方島

Area 20.84 km² (8.0 mi²)Ehime Prefecture
Hakata Island
Hakata Island (伯方島)Photo: mukarin from Tokyo, Japan — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
Island groupGeiyo Islands
PrefectureEhime
RegionShikoku
MunicipalityImabari
Area20.84 km² (8.0 mi²)
Highest point304 m
Coordinates34.2167° N, 133.083° E

Getting there: the article below outlines this island's usual ferry and flight routes. Timetables change with the season and sailings are cancelled in rough weather — always confirm the current schedule with the operator or the municipality before you travel.

Hakata Island (Create) is an island in the city now. It's an island that belongs almost central to the Inland Sea and to the Auspic Islands. There are four shipbuilders, and there are other shipowners, and by the year 2021 there are more than 20 foreign navigators. It's known as the island of shipping and ships. It's also where the name "The Salt of the Count" came from.

Geography

It's located at Ehime at Hiroshima. On the XXQ092X side of the ZX2X in Seto as an island. As a administrative area, it has now become part of the city of Iseshima because of the integration of the old Yoichi County town and other cities on January 16, 2005. The distance between Hakata Island and Ōmishima Island is the shortest course between Shikoku and mainland, and the noseways specified on the development and conservation route in 1979. There's a Hakata Island interface in the Ekura region in the southern part of the island. Up until the time before the integration in 2005, some of the same wisdom county had been mixed with others. I'm going to write it like this. - It's known as the cherry blossoms. The Channel.

Nature

There are four kinds of copy-a-doodles on record.

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The position in the Yoichi County Island area

The police department, fire departments, telephone and power firms have been set up. However, with the increase in traffic and the reduction in use in traffic, the legal office has been done away with.

Local gathering

A mountain in the center of the island created a community on the coast around the island, and there were already five villages in the capital, Izu, Izuura, and Northura.

School

Ehime at Iseshima High School. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm going to go back to the middle school. I'm an old friend of mine.

Culture

There is a culture that lives in the sea. (Aozaki's fish on the beach)

Industrial

The salt fields have been eliminated, but they have survived as saltmaking. The salt pads were transferred to a car shrimp farm or something. The port of Kiura was one of the ports to wait for the tide and the wind, but soon it developed into a ship, and shipbuilders were building in the island area, and shipmakers were coming from neighboring islands.

The primary industry

(Friendry - such as citrus and flower growers.) The water industry - along with the coastal fishing industry, there are car shrimps.

Second industry

The shipbuilder - a four-shiped ship station on the island. The salt industry - there are two companies on the island: The sewing process.

The third industry

The shipping operation - the shipowner exists on a number of islands. It's a shipping company.

Road

Highway road. Country road. I don't know.

Traffic at sea

(Breast Harbor - Kanaura Port, northern port, Kumaguchi port) Fast ship. The ferry route.

A good name

The opening of the mountain - the surrounding peak has been organized into an open park and has become the famous cherry park. I'm glad you're here. Resendo. S.C. Park on the road. It's an honorary cultural park.

It's my first birthday

I'm sorry. Salt ramen. Car shrimp. Hagu.

Text adapted from the Japanese Wikipedia article 伯方島, whose full text was translated into English for this guide by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population, area and location facts from Wikidata (CC0); figures Wikidata does not carry are taken from the Japanese Wikipedia article's data table (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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