Mishima (Shizuoka)

Mishima (Japanese三岛 市, -shi) is a city on the Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan.

The Japanese narrator Hiraoka Kimitake named after this city Mishima Yukio.

Geography

Their population is growing steadily since the Shinkansen allowed to commute in about an hour to around 100 km from Tokyo.

History

Mishima was a post station (宿 场 町Shukuba -machi ) of the Tōkaidō during the Edo period.

The city was founded on April 29, 1941.

Traffic

  • Train: The Mishima Station is both a Shinkansen station is on the Tōkaidō Main Line and the Izu Hakone tetsudō.
  • About the Tomei highway near Tōkyō can be reached in about one and a half hours.
  • National Highway 1, towards Tokyo or Kyoto
  • National Road 136

Twinning

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Shohei Matsunaga (* 1989), football player
  • Makoto Ooka ( born 1931 ), poet and literary scholar
  • Naohiro Takahara ( b. 1979 ), football player

Adjacent Cities and Towns

  • Shizuoka Prefecture Numazu
  • Susono
  • Nagaizumi
  • Kannami
  • Shimizu
  • Hakone
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