Cruises from Sakata
Sakata – a “city of rice” – is city of 105,000 on Japan’s island Honshu, facing the Sea of Japan. It is 1000km due east of North Korea. It has the Mogami River running through it, and 25km to the NE is the symmetrical 2236m Mount Chokai, in the Chokai Quasi-National Park. The port has existed since the 12th C. The city was destroyed by the 1894 Shokai earthquake and the modern city of Sakata was founded in 1933. The economy is based on light manufacturing, agriculture and commercial fishing.
Read moreSakata is the home of Epson, the Japanese electronics company that is one of the world's largest manufacturers of computer printers.
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