Hondōri Iwamura-chō
is the name of the town center of Iwamura, Gifu, Iwamura in Ena, Gifu, Ena, Gifu Prefecture, and was designated as one of the Important Preservation Districts for Groups of Traditional Buildings on April 17, 1998. It is the merchant district of a former castle town that prospered during the Edo period as a political, cultural and economic center of the Tōnō region. Overview * The (illegitimately descended from the Matsudaira clan), who ruled Iwamura Castle in the first part of the Edo period, created the model for the townscape. It prospered as the castle town of the 30,000 ''koku'' Iwamura Domain. Its area is around , and it is long and thin, being around in length from east to west. *From the to the east side was the merchant quarter area of the former castle town. In the present day, most of the Edo period buildings have been remodeled. However, many of them have original features preserved such as the shorter second floor, . The building plots are long and stretch from ...
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Iwamura (written: 岩村 lit. "rock village") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball player *Noboru Iwamura, Japanese biologist *Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress *Iwamura Michitoshi, Meiji era politician *, Japanese sprint canoeist See also

*Iwamura Castle in Gifu Prefecture, Japan *Iwamura, Gifu, former town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan *67853 Iwamura, main-belt asteroid {{surname, Iwamura Japanese-language surnames ...
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