Iwaki Lowlands - Iwaki

...The Soso lowlands in the northern part of the prefecture, covering both Soma and Futaba counties, are mainly cultivated as rice paddy fields, but the coastal area of ​​Futaba county is a power source area for the metropolitan area, with the construction of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (started operation in 1971) and Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant (1982), and the Tokyo Electric Power Company Hirono Thermal Power Plant (1980). The Iwaki lowlands in the south prospered as a coal-producing area until the 1950s, due to the Joban coalfields. In 1951, Onahama Port was designated an important port, and in 1964, the Joban area was designated a new industrial city along with the Koriyama area in the central area, and since then, factories have been attracted to the area rapidly, and it has become a coastal industrial area. National Route 6, the Joban Expressway, and the Joban Line run parallel to the coast, and the Ban'etsu East Line and Ban'etsu Expressway run from Iwaki City to Koriyama City.

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…北部の相馬･双葉両郡の範囲の相双（そうそう）低地は水田農業を主としているが，双葉郡の臨海部一帯は福島第1原子力発電所(1971運転開始)および第2原子力発電所(1982)や，東京電力広野火力発電所(1980)などが建設されて，首都圏への電源地帯となっている。南部のいわき低地は，1950年代まで常磐炭田をひかえて産炭地として栄えたが，51年小名浜港が重要港湾に指定され，64年常磐地区が中通りの郡山地区とともに新産業都市に指定されて以来，工場誘致が急速に進んで臨海工業地域となっている。海岸に平行して国道6号線と常磐自動車道と常磐線，いわき市から郡山市へ磐越東線，磐越自動車道が通じる。…

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