Wakkanai

Wakkanai a metropolis positioned in Soya Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the capital of Soya Subprefecture, and the northernmost town in Japan. It contains Japan's northernmost point, Cape Soya, from which the Russian island of Sakhalin may be seen. As of October 2013, the metropolis has an anticipated populace of 37,011 and a population density of 48.65 people in keeping with km² 126 humans in step with mi². The total area is 760.80 km2. During World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy used the harbor and port as a submarine base.

Wakkanai turned into a ways enough north to be out of doors the range of American heavy bombers and became safe from air assault. Until the early to mid-Nineteen Sixties, the northern portion of the harbor remained divided through concrete sub-mooring pens. The big breakwater structure turned into in reality a sub-restore facility. At the shore give up there was a big winching mechanism capable of hauling subs up into the in part enclosed structure wherein they may be repaired at the same time as completely out of the water. Wakkanai became firstly home to an Ainu population. The first Japanese settlement turned into hooked up in 1685.