Nemuro, Hokkaido

Nemuro (Japanese根 室 市, -shi) is a port city on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō. The city is located in the extreme north -eastern Japan and is the administrative seat of the sub-prefecture of Nemuro.

History

In the port of Nemuro was reported a 2.8 m high tsunami on 11 March 2011 after the Tōhoku earthquake, which could not be distracted from the dike and into the path flowed ..

Geography

Nemuro is located east of Sapporo on the peninsula Nemuro on the Pacific Ocean.

Traffic

  • National roads 44, 243

Attractions

  • Cape Nossapu (纳沙布 岬)

Twinning

  • United States Sitka, since 1975
  • Japan Kurobe, since October 19, 1976
  • Russia Severo- Kurilsk, since 1994

Adjacent Cities and Towns

  • Bekkai
  • Hamanaka
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