Higashine, Yamagata
Higashine (Japanese东 根 市, -shi) is a city in Yamagata Prefecture in Japan
The city is known for fruit trees, especially cherries and apples, and as " Fruit Tree Kingdom" (果树 王国, kaju Okoku ) refers. In the city the volume after Japan's most cherries are harvested. Specialty of the town is the variety Satōnishiki (佐藤 锦).
Geography
Higashine located south of Shinjō and north of Yamagata. The Ou mountain range lies to the east of the city. The Mogami flows in a south-north direction through the city.
History
Higashine was founded on 3 November 1958.
Traffic
- Plane: Yamagata airport
- JR Yamagata Shinkansen: Train station Sakurambo - Higashine
- JR Ou Main Line
- Tōhoku - Chūō Expressway: Exit Higashine
- National Road 13
- National Road 48
- National roads 487
Sons and daughters of the town
- Kazushige Abe ( b. 1968 ), writer
Adjacent Cities and Towns
- Yamagata Prefecture Yamagata
- Tendō
- Obanazawa
- Murayama
- Kahoku