Mikasa

Mikasa is a town positioned in Sorachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. As of September 2016, the city has an anticipated populace of 9,056, and the density of 30 men and women in line with km2. Mikasa is one of the birthplaces of the mining and railroad industries in Hokkaido, and the Hokkai Bon tune changed into invented there. Though inside the beyond it flourished because of its herbal abundance of coal, the mines have in large part closed down and this has caused the populace of the city to fall swiftly.

Quite some fossil specimens have additionally been amassed there, mainly ammonites and the prehistoric marine reptile Yezosaurus mikasaensis, both of which can be considered at the metropolis's natural records museum. Notable nearby merchandise consist of watermelon, musk melon, cucumber, northern plum, and wine. Hokkaido Expressway runs through west of the town and Mikasa IC is on it. No railway is in the metropolis.