Kainan [city] - Kainan

Japanese: 海南[市] - かいなん

A city in the northwest of Wakayama Prefecture. It was incorporated as a city in 1934. It faces Kuroe Bay and has developed into a city with the Kisei Main Line and the Hanwa Expressway passing through it. Kuroe has been known since early modern times for its lacquerware (Kuroe lacquerware), while the shipping port town of Hikata has been known for its Japanese umbrellas, and spinning is thriving in the inland sea. Palm products (scrubbing brushes, mats, brooms) and Kishu mandarin oranges are also local specialties. In the early modern period, salt fields were cultivated along the coast of Kuroe Bay, but these were abolished at the end of the Meiji period. Reclamation work that began after that was completed in the 1960s, and the city is part of the Kihoku coastal industrial zone, with thermal power plants, steel and oil factories moving in. The Nogami Electric Railway (11.4 km), which connected Hikata with the trailhead in Nogami Town (now Kimino Town), was closed in 1994. In April 2005, Shimotsu Town in Kaiso District was incorporated. The area is 101.06 ^{km 2} . 54,783 people (2010).
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Japanese:

和歌山県北西部の市。1934年市制。黒江湾に臨み市街が発達，紀勢本線，阪和自動車道が通じる。近世から黒江は漆器（黒江塗），廻船の港町日方は和傘(わがさ)の産で知られ，内海では紡績が盛ん。シュロ加工品（たわし，マット，ほうき）や紀州ミカンも特産。黒江湾岸は近世塩田が行われていたが，明治末に廃止。その後始められた埋立てが1960年代に完了，紀北臨海工業地帯に属し，火力発電所，鉄鋼，石油工場が進出。日方と野上町（現・紀美野町）の登山口を結んでいた野上電鉄（11.4km）は1994年に廃線となった。2005年４月海草郡下津町を編入。101.06km²。５万4783人（2010）。
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