Encyclopedia: Toba, Mie(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Toba (鳥羽å¸; -shi) is a city located in Mie, Japan.
Toba is best known as the hometown of Kokichi Mikimoto, who developed a method to cultivate pearls.
Toba also boasts a world-class aquarium called the Toba Aquarium, which houses such animals as dugongs, African manatees, dolphins, and a wide-variety of aquatic life.
Located in the southern part of Mie, Toba is blessed with mild oceanic climates, a beautiful saw tooth coastline, and four islands (which approximately 20% of the population lives).
Toba was designated as an international tourist and cultural city in 1977 and is so well known that 5,150,000 tourists visit Toba each year.
The labor population in Toba is classified as primary-15%, Secondary- 20%, and Tertiary- 65%.
Toba, Mie -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Toba (鳥羽市; -shi) is a (A large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts) city located in (Click link for more info and facts about Mie) Mie, (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan.
Toba is best known as the hometown of (Click link for more info and facts about Kokichi Mikimoto) Kokichi Mikimoto, who developed a method to cultivate (A smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel) pearls.
As of 2003, the city has an estimated ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn) population of 24,301 and the (The amount per unit size) density of 225.26 persons per (Click link for more info and facts about km²;) km²;.
Mikimoto pearls(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Irago Cape, Toba (Toba Aquarium, Mikimoto Pearl Island) and Ise Grand Shrine.
Toba is a small town best known for Mikimoto Pearl Island, where Kokichi Mikimoto succeeded in cultivating the world's first cultured pearl in 1893 and the...
Mikimoto Pearl Island Mikimoto Pearl Island from Toba Aquarium...
Born as the first son of a noodle shop owner in Toba, Mie prefecture he left school at the age of 13 selling vegetables to support the family.
Seeing the pearl divers of Ise unloading their treasures at the shore in his childhood started the fascination with pearls.
In 1888 he obtained a loan to start his first pearl farm at the Shinmei inlet in Shima province (now Mie prefecture) together with his wife and partner Ume.
Toba, Mie Prefecture, Japan - Discounted rates at www.bookings-at.info
By Train: JR Kaisoku Mie - 104 minutes from Nagoya Station.
By Plane: From Nagoya Airport with Limousine Bus (870 yen) to JR Nagoya Station, then with JR Rapid Mie to JR Toba Station, then with taxi to Hotel (total 193 minutes).
With overview of city, symbols, sister cities, access information, and waste disposal guide.
With brief introduction to Toba, international exchanges, festivals and events, and famous stories there.
Includes overview of the city, transportation, access by air and land, alien registration, ambulance and medical care, disaster prevention, waste disposal, and living guidebook online in pdf format.
