is a city

Cities of Japan

||A is a local administrative unit in Japan. Cities are ranked on the same level as and , with the difference that they are not a component of...

 in Mie

Mie Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan which is part of the Kansai regions on Honshū island. The capital is the city of Tsu.- History :Until the Meiji Restoration, Mie prefecture was known as Ise Province and Iga Province....

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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Toba is the site of the Toba Aquarium

Toba Aquarium

is a public aquarium, which is located in Toba, Mie, Japan. It has 12 zones which reproduces natural environments.850 species, 20,000 animals are bred and exhibited.Watching course is not fixed, so you can watch animals freely...

, which houses such animals as dugongs, African manatees, porpoises

Finless Porpoise

The finless porpoise is one of six porpoise species. In the waters around Japan, at the northern end of its range, it is known as the sunameri . A freshwater population found in the Yangtze River in China is known locally as the jiangzhu or "river pig". There is a degree of taxonomic uncertainty...

, and a wide-variety of aquatic life.

Toba is the hometown of Mikimoto Kōkichi, who developed a method to cultivate pearl

Pearl

A pearl is a hard object produced within the soft tissue of a living shelled mollusk. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is made up of calcium carbonate in minute crystalline form, which has been deposited in concentric layers. The ideal pearl is perfectly round and smooth, but many other...

s, and Tokuhichi Mishima

Tokuhichi Mishima

was a Japanese metallurgist. He discovered that aluminum restored magnetism to non-magnetic nickel steel. He invented MKM steel, which was an extremely inexpensive magnetic substance that has been used in many applications. It is also closely related to the modern Alnico magnets. He later...

, who invented MKM steel

MKM steel

MKM steel, an alloy containing nickel and aluminum, was developed in 1931 by the Japanese metallurgist Tokuhichi Mishima. While conducting research into the properties of nickel, Mishima discovered that a strongly magnetic steel could be created by adding aluminum to non-magnetic nickel steel.MKM...

. Kokichi Mikimoto's Memorial Hall is also located in Toba. It is known as Mikimoto Pearl Island

Mikimoto Pearl Island

is a small island which is located in Toba, Mie, Japan.This island is known as the birthplace of pearl cultivation and it belong to . This company runs this island as a leisure site.They exhibit pearl craft goods and you can watch ama divers shows.- History :...

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   since 1966.

Islands

Toba administers these islands in the Ise Bay

Ise Bay

Ise Bay is a bay located at the mouth of the Kiso River between Mie and Aichi Prefectures in Japan. Ise Bay has an average depth of 19.5 metres and a maximum depth of 30 metres toward the centre. The mouth of the bay is 9 kilometres wide and is connected to the smaller Mikawa Bay by two channels:...

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• Kamishima
  Kamishima
  is a small island in Mie Prefecture in Japan. The island is administered by and belongs to Toba city....
  
  
• Kozukumijima
  Kozukumijima
  is a small island in the Mie Prefecture of Japan. The geographic area and the residents of the island constitute a municipal subdivision of Toba city....
  
  
• Ozukumijima
  Ozukumijima
  is a little island in the Mie Prefecture of Japan. The island is administered and belongs to the Toba city....
  
  
• Sugashima
• Toushijima
• Sakatejima
• Mitsujima
• Irukajima

External links

• Toba official website
• A Day Tripper's Guide to Ise and Toba Japanzine By Zack Davisson