Yokkaichi

Yokkaichi 四日市市
Special city
Yokkaichi City Hall
Flag Seal
Location of Yokkaichi in Mie Prefecture
Yokkaichi
Coordinates: 34°57′54.1″N 136°37′27.9″E / 34.965028°N 136.624417°E / 34.965028; 136.624417
Country	Japan
Region	Kansai, Tōkai
Prefecture	Mie Prefecture
Government
• Mayor	Tomohiro Mori
Area
• Total	206.44 km2 (79.71 sq mi)
Population  (August 2015)
• Total	306,107
• Density	1,480/km2 (3,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+9 (Japan Standard Time)
- Tree	Cinnamomum camphora
- Flower	Salvia splendens
-Bird	Black-headed gull
Phone number	059-354-8244
Address	1-5 Suwa-chō, Yokkaichi-shi, Mie-ken 510-8601
Website	www.city.yokkaichi.mie.jp

Yokkaichi is a Japanese city in Mie Prefecture on the island of Honshū. It is a port near Nagoya.

It has been recognized as a special city since 2000.^[1]

In the Edo period, Yokkaichi-juku was 43rd of the 53 shogunate-maintained waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto.^[2]

In 1936, Yokkaichi hosted an international trade fair called "Exposition of Yokkaichi City".^[3]

Yokkaichi has 2 sister cities.

• Long Beach, California (USA) - Since October 7, 1963
• Tianjin (China) - Since October 28, 1980

• Katsuya Okada - Foreign Affairs Minister
• Takuya Okada - past chairman of AEON Group
• Katsuaki Watanabe - president of Toyota Motor Corporation

• 
  Yokkaichi rest stop by Hiroshige, ukiyo-e woodblock print c. 1830s
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  Exposition of Yokkaichi City, 1936
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  Yokkaichi port, 2009

• The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

Media related to Yokkaichi, Mie at Wikimedia Commons

• Yokkaichi City website (in Japanese)
• Hiroshige prints, Yokkaichi Archived 2012-06-11 at the Wayback Machine

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