Fukushima Ward: Fukushima - Route 49 - Hirata
Hirata Village has served as an agricultural community in the Abukuma Highlands since its creation in 1955. This rural municipality lies in Fukushima Prefecture, southeast of Kōriyama, where wooded uplands are divided by narrow cultivated valleys. National Route 49 is an important east–west road through the area, linking Iwaki on Fukushima’s Pacific side with Niigata via Kōriyama. Around Hirata, the route runs past dispersed settlements, fields and forested slopes rather than a built-up urban centre. The Abukuma Highlands give this part of Fukushima an inland character shaped by farming and road connections between small communities and the prefecture’s larger cities.
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