Date 伊達市, Fukushima Prefecture

Date (Japanese: 伊達市) is a city in the northern part of Fukushima Prefecture, in the Tohoku Region of Honshu, Japan. It covers 265 sq km (102 sq mi) and has a population of 65,000 people (2012 estimate). The present city was created in 2006 through the merger of the former towns of Hobara, Yanagawa, Date, Ryozen and Tsukidate.

Kabuto Bridge in Date, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan


The history of Date goes back to the Edo period, when it was ruled by the Date clan, which was one of the most influential daimyos of feudal Japan. The Meiji Restoration took away the territories belonging to the samurai. Nevertheless, the city holds historic monuments to the feudal period.

Date is about 60 km (37 mi) northwest of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. It is outside the nuclear accident exclusion zone following the 2011 earthquake.

Planning your trip to Date

Take the Tohoku Expressway or the Tohoyu Shinkansen to Fukushima City, and from there, take a bus to Date.

 Latest updates on Penang Travel Tips

 Share your travels and/or ask a travel-related question

Join the Penang Travel Tips Facebook Group to share photos, tips and anything related to your travels, or ask travel-related questions.

Map of Roads in Penang

Looking for information on Penang? Use this Map of Roads in Penang to zoom in on information about Penang, brought to you road by road.

Discover with Timothy

Let me take you to explore and discover Penang through my series of walking tours on YouTube. You may use these videos as your virtual tour guide. At the beginning of each video, I provide the starting point coordinates which you may key into your GPS, Google Maps or Waze, to be navigated to where I start the walk, and use the video as your virtual tour guide.

Disclaimer

Please use the information on this page as guidance only. The author endeavours to update the information on this page from time to time, but regrets any inaccuracies if there be any.

Songs about Penang

About this website

Hello and thanks for reading this page. My name is Timothy and my hobby is in describing places so that I can share the information with the general public. My website has become the go to site for a lot of people including students, teachers, journalists, etc. whenever they seek information on places, particularly those in Malaysia and Singapore. I have been doing this since 5 January 2003, for over twenty years already. You can read about me at Discover Timothy. By now I have compiled information on thousands of places, mostly in Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore, and I continue to add more almost every day. My goal is to describe every street in every town in Malaysia and Singapore.