Place:Ainan, Minamiuwa, Ehime, Japan

Watchers
  • no watchers


NameAinan
TypeTown
Located inMinamiuwa, Ehime, Japan


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

is a large town made up of smaller village suburbs in southern Ehime Prefecture, on the island of Shikoku in Japan. As of May 1, 2017, the town had an estimated population of 22,287.

On October 1, 2004 all the former towns and villages of Minamiuwa (Jōhen, Mishō, Nishiumi, Uchiumi, and Ipponmatsu) merged to form a larger town, Ainan.

Ainan is known for its fishing and agriculture industries which produce a variety of products, including bonito, red snapper, yellowtail, oysters, noble scallops, and citrus fruits mikan. The main citrus fruit is Ainan Gold Grapefruit. In addition, Kanjizaiji is located in Ainan. Kanjizaiji is a Shingon Buddhist temple and the 40th of the 88 temples on the Shikoku Pilgrimage.

[edit]

Research Tips

This place has no commentary yet. It is only a stub. You can help by editing it and sharing what you know: research tips, history, relationships with other places, etc.


This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Ainan, Ehime. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
Retrieved from "https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Place:Ainan%2C_Minamiuwa%2C_Ehime%2C_Japan"