Yonezawa

Yonezawa is a city in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Yonezawa is maximum famous for its local cuisine apples, yonezawa beef, and carp and for being a castle town that turned into once domestic to the Uesugi extended family, which includes the daimyō Uesugi Yozan. As of October 2015, the city has an estimated population of 85,475, and a populace density of 156 men and women consistent with km². The general place is 548.51 square kilometres.

The place of present-day Yonezawa became a part of historic Dewa Province and become managed inside the Sengoku duration with the aid of the Date extended family. The famed warlord Date Masamune become born in Yonezawa. During the Edo duration, the vicinity became Yonezawa Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate, ruled by using the Uesugi extended family. After the begin of the Meiji length, the place was organized into Minamiokitama District, Yamagata Prefecture. The modern-day metropolis of Yamagata turned into installed on April 1, 1889. The economic system of Yamagata is primarily based on agriculture, horticulture, mild manufacturing and tourism.