was a
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
located in
Shimokita District in northern
Aomori Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan in the TÅhoku region. The prefecture's capital, largest city, and namesake is the city of Aomori (city), Aomori. Aomori is the northernmost prefecture on Japan's main island, Honshu, and is border ...
,
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
.
History
Wakinosawa Village was founded in 1889 from the merger the hamlets of Wakinosawa with neighboring Ozawa.
On March 14, 2005, Wakinosawa, along with the neighboring towns of
Kawauchi and
Åhata (all from
Shimokita District), was
merged
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are business transactions in which the ownership of a company, business organization, or one of their operating units is transferred to or consolidated with another entity. They may happen through direct absorpt ...
into the neighboring and expanded city of
Mutsu, and thus no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Geography and economy
Located at the southwestern tip of
Shimokita Peninsula
The is the remote northeastern cape of the Japanese island of Honshū, stretching out towards Hokkaido.
Overview
It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the east, Tsugaru Strait to the north and Mutsu Bay to the west and south. Shaped like an ...
facing
Mutsu Bay
is a bay located within Aomori Prefecture, in the northern TÅhoku region of northern Japan. It has an east-west distance of approximately and a north-south distance of approximately at its eastern end, with a total area of approximately .
Na ...
, the village of Wakinosawa had an economy based primarily on
commercial fishing
Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for Commerce, commercial Profit (economics), profit, mostly from wild fisheries. It provides a large quantity of food to many countries around the world, but those who practice ...
.
Wakinosawa was served by
Route 338 (Japan) highway, but had no railway service. Ferries connect the fishing port with
Aomori
, officially Aomori City (, ), is the capital Cities of Japan, city of Aomori Prefecture, in the TÅhoku region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 264,945 in 136,781 households, and a population density of 321 people per squa ...
and
Kanita on the opposite side of Mutsu Bay.
Population
At the time of its merger, the village had an estimated
population
Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and pl ...
of 2,461 and a
population density
Population density (in agriculture: Standing stock (disambiguation), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geog ...
of 42.06 persons per km
2. The total area was 58.59 km
2.
Climate
References
Dissolved municipalities of Aomori Prefecture
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