Noda (Iwate)
Noda (Japanese野 田村, -mura ) is a village community in the district Kunohe in the east of Iwate Prefecture in Japan.
Geography
Noda is located at the eastern foot of the Kitakami mountain country on the Noda Bay (野 田湾, Noda - wan) of the Pacific Ocean.
In the northern part there is a vast estuary of several rivers. In these, the resort center and the district Noda is with the majority of the population. The district and thus village name comes from these geographical conditions since no野"Prairie " means and because田" rice field ". This district is in turn subdivided into 37 numbered sub- districts, with some of them are also in the sparsely populated hinterland. A few kilometers further south is another small delta with the hamlet of Tamagawa (玉川, literally " jewel river ") and its 5 also numbered sub- districts.
In the Noda - Tamagawa mine the rare mineral Kinoshitalith that in Japan only in Hokkejino ( Kamo -chō, Kizugawa ) was first discovered in 1972, occurs.
Noda is located south of Kuji, northeast of Iwaizumi and north of Fudai.
History
Today's church was established on 1889 as part of the nationwide Gemeindeneuorganisation from the merger of the old village with the neighboring Noda Tamagawa.
The community was hit on March 11, 2011 after the Tōhoku earthquake, a tsunami that severely damaged the village center. About 300 buildings were completely destroyed and with stand May 20 38 dead were counted. The ground floor of the town hall was flooded and there are traces of black water at a height of one meter on the outer wall remained.
Traffic
Main and only highway is the National Road 45 to Sendai or Aomori. There is a shuttle bus to the nearby city Kuji about the Kuji - coastline (久 慈 海岸线, Kuji kaigansen ) the Norunetto Kuji (のる ねっとKUJI ), a joint venture of the bus company Iwate Kenpoku bus KK, the tourism company Sanriku Kanko KK and passenger transportation company K. K. Hikari Sogo Kotsu.
On the rail network Fudai is connected via the Kita- Rias Line ( North Rias Line) the railway company Sanriku tetsudō. This leads to the main stations from Miyako and Kuji. The stops are in Noda Rokuchū - Noda (陆 中 野 田 駅, -eki ) and Noda - Tamagawa (野 田玉川 駅, -eki ).
Education
In Noda is the primary school Noda (野 田村 立 野 田 小学校, Noda - sonritsu Noda shōgakkō ), the middle school Noda (野 田村 立 野 田中 学校, Noda - sonritsu Noda chūgakkō ) and the prefectural technical high school Kuji (岩手 県 立 久 慈 工业 高等学校, Iwate Kuji - kenritsu Kōgyō Kōtō Gakko ) that is not in spite of their name in the near Kuji.