Kitaibaraki [city] - Kitaibaraki

Japanese: 北茨城[市] - きたいばらき

A city in the northeastern tip of Ibaraki Prefecture. It was incorporated as a city in 1956. Most of the city is mountainous in the southern part of the Abukuma Highlands, and the main urban areas of Isohara, which developed due to the shipment of coal from the Joban Coalfield, Otsu-machi, a fishing port, and Hiragata-machi along the Joban Line that leads to the Pacific coast, have developed. Fishing, mainly bottom trawling and sardine prong netting, and seafood processing are thriving. All coal mines were closed by 1973. Instead, an industrial complex was created in Isohara to promote the coal-producing region, and electrical and chemical factories were established there. Izura is known as the place where Okakura Tenshin, Yokoyama Taikan and others had summer homes, and is home to the Izura Institute of Art and Culture of Ibaraki University. The Joban Expressway runs through the city. Damage occurred within the city during the Great East Japan Earthquake. 186.80 ^km2 . 47,026 people (2010).

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Japanese:

茨城県北東端の市。1956年市制。大部分は阿武隈高地南部の山地で，太平洋岸に通じる常磐線に沿って，常磐炭田の石炭積出しで発展した磯原，漁港の大津町と平潟町の主要市街地が発達。底引網，イワシ巻網を主とする漁業，水産加工が盛ん。石炭は1973年までに全ての炭鉱が閉山。代わって産炭地振興のため磯原に工業団地が造成され，電気，化学などの工場が立地した。五浦(いづら)は岡倉天心，横山大観らの別荘地として知られ，茨城大学五浦美術文化研究所がある。常磐自動車道が通じる。東日本大震災で，市内において被害が発生。186.80km²。４万7026人（2010）。

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