大田 (Ōda)

大田 (Ōda) is a city of 40 thousand,¹ located on and above the Sea of Japan coast of Shimane Prefecture and below Mount Sanbe, western Honshū Island in ⽇夲 (Nippon or Japan). The Iwami Silver Mine, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is located here.²

External references

An entrance to one of the mines constituting the Iwami Silver Mine, Ōda, Nippon (Japan)

Footnotes

1. 2008 figure from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Japan, accessed 3/25/2014.
2. The site includes the port facilities, which since 2005 have been part of the city (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cda,_Shimane, accessed 7/2/2014).