Hirosaki

Hirosaki is a metropolis positioned in western Aomori Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 December 2017, the metropolis had an envisioned population of 174,171 in 71,823 families and a populace density of 330 humans in step with km2. The general place of the city is 524.20 rectangular kilometres 202.39 sq.Mi. Hirosaki developed as a fort metropolis for the 100,000 koku Hirosaki Domain ruled by using the Tsugaru clan.

The metropolis is presently a local industrial middle, and the most important producer of apples in Japan. The town authorities has been selling the catchphrase "Apple Colored Town Hirosaki", and "Castle and Cherry Blossom and Apple Town" to promote the metropolis photograph. The metropolis is likewise referred to for a huge range of western-fashion buildings courting from the Meiji length.

The place around Hirosaki shaped a part of the domains of the Northern Fujiwara in the Heian period; Minamoto no Yoritomo awarded it to the Nanbu extended family in the early Kamakura period after the defeat of the Northern Fujiwara 1189. During the Sengoku period a local retainer of the Nambu, The Tsugaru clan sided with the Satchō Alliance in the Boshin War of the Meiji Restoration, and become rewarded by means of the new Meiji authorities with a further 10,000 koku. However, with the abolition of the han system on August 29, 1871, Hirosaki Domain was abolished, and changed via Hirosaki Prefecture.