Hirakawa, Yamaguchi


Hirakawa was a village located in Yoshiki District, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The village was named from Hirai's 1st kanji and Kurokawa's 2nd kanji.
On April 1, 1944, the village merged with surrounding 9 municipalities to become the city of Yamaguchi and the village dissolved.

Geography

History

Yoshida

Hirai

Kurokawa

The village of Hirakawa became one of the regions of the city of Yamaguchi. Since the 1970s, more young people, mostly students, live in the Yoshida region because Yamaguchi University has been relocated to the Yoshida Region.