Introduction to Shimonoseki City

Shimonoseki City is the largest city in Yamaguchi Prefecture. It was founded in 1889. It is located at the westernmost tip of Honshu, Japan. It is surrounded by the sea on three sides and has beautiful scenery. It has been a fortress with sea and land transportation since ancient times. It is well-known as a city with relatively developed commerce, aquatic product processing, agriculture, and tourism. The city has a total area of ??716.2 square kilometers (2012) and a population of 268,000 (September 2015). The annual temperature difference and daily temperature difference are small. The annual average temperature is 16.4℃, the maximum temperature is 33.7℃, the minimum temperature is minus 1.7℃, and the annual average precipitation is 1762.5 mm. Due to good natural conditions, there have been very few natural disasters such as earthquakes in history. It is the place where the Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed in history.