Higashiyama, Iwate


Higashiyama was a town located in Higashiiwai District, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.
Higashiyama village was created on February 1, 1955 by the merger of the villages of Takozu and Nagasaka. On November 1, 1958 it merged with the village of Matsukawa to become Higashiyama Town.
On September 20, 2005, Higashiyama, along with the towns of Daitō and Senmaya, the villages of Kawasaki and Murone, and the town of Hanaizumi, was merged into the expanded city of Ichinoseki and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
As of September 2005, the town had an estimated population of 8,027 and a population density of 91.51 persons per km². The total area was 87.72 km².