Monobe () is the part of
Ninomiya, Tochigi which lies to farthest to the East. It is surrounded by
mountains
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to the East and
rice
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fields and
strawberry
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farms to the West.
There is a museum dedicated to the eighteenth-century hero
Ninomiya Sontoku
, also known as Ninomiya Kinjirō (二宮 金次郎), was a Japanese agriculturalist. He lost his parents when he was a boy, but through hard work and diligence, he rebuilt his fallen family at the age of 20. Later, he rebuilt approximately 600 v ...
in Monobe.
References
Geography of Tochigi Prefecture
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