Concord's Sister City Kitakami, Japan
In 1974, Kitakami, Japan became Concord's Sister City
Kitakami is located
in the upper northeast area of Japan in the Iwate Prefecture. Kitakami offers
many tourist attractions such as cherry blossoms in Tenshochi Park; Geto Hot
Spring, famous for its seclusion; the Oni museum; Michinoku Folklore Village;
the Museum of Japanese Modean Poetry, the only center of its kind for poetry
in Japan; the Michinoku Geino Festival; and Japan Kids' Festival. Kitakami
also has an active economy based on industrial parks and agriculture. A population
of 91,000 as of the year 2000 means Kitakami is very similar in population
size to the City of Concord.
The Concord Ambassadors is the local non-profit organization that sponsors the Sister City program. Ambassadors from each city visit through an exchange program of students and adults. For more information on our Sister City, visit the Kitakami, Japan web site.
View photos from the Fall 2004 visit.