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Tōno (遠野市; -shi) is a city located in Iwate, Japan. This article is about the Japanese municipality system. ...
Iwate Prefecture (岩手県; Iwate-ken) is located in the Tohoku region on Honshu island, Japan. ...
As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 27,121 and the density of 41.07 persons per km². The total area is 660.38 km². 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Population density can be used as a measurement of any tangible item. ...
Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
The city was founded on December 1, 1954. December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Kunio Yanagita gathered folk tales here and published Tōno Monogatari or The Tales of Tōno in 1910, which is known as one of the greatest works of Japanese folklore studies. Yanagita Kunio (柳田 国男 July 31, 1875 - August 8, 1962) is a scholar who is often known as a father of Japanese ethnology. ...
1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Transportation
It is accessed by three routes, they are numbered 283, 340 and 396. The bypass is under construction. And prefectural roads numbered 35 and 121. It will be accessed by a new by-pass which is under construction and is an expressway, the newly built Kamaishi Expressway linking the coast. Tono has had an annual student and teacher exchange with Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences in Chattanooga TN since 1990. There are two high schools in Tono, Tono High School (Tono Koko) an academic school and Tono Ryokuho High School, a vocational school. Both schools participate in the exchange.
There is also a Jr. High school sechange program involving many junior high schools in Tono and both Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts and Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences.
Twinnings Kikuchi (菊池市; -shi) is a city located in Kumamoto, Japan. ...
External links - Official website in Japanese
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