Yabuki

Sister cities

• Towada

History

The area of present-day Yabuki was part of ancient Mutsu Province and the area has many burial mounds from the Kofun period. The area formed part of the holdings of Shirakawa Domain during the Edo period, and had a number of post stations on the Mito Kaidō and the Ōshū Kaidō. After the Meiji Restoration, it was organized as part of Nishishirakawa District in the Nakadōri region of Iwaki Province. Yabuki Village was formed on April 1, 1889, with the creation of the modern municipalities system. It was elevated to town status on December 1, 1903. The Imperial Japanese Army established an airfield in Yabuki in 1928, which became a major pilot training base in 1937. It was bombed by American forces in August 1945 during World War II. During the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, over 1800 structures were severely damaged or destroyed, corresponding to approximately 30 percent of the town, the largest percentage of any municipality not affected by a tsunami.

Geography

Yabuki is located in the flatlands of south-central Fukushima prefecture, approximately 212 kilometers north of Tokyo. *Rivers: Abukuma River * Fukushima Prefecture ** Ishikawa ** Izumizaki ** Kagamiishi ** Nakajima ** Shirakawa ** Tamakawa ** Ten-ei

Most-observed species

• Brown-eared Bulbul

  Hypsipetes amaurotis (Temminck, 1830) · Aves
  12
• Cinereous Tit

  Parus cinereus Vieillot, 1818 · Aves
  11
• Oriental Greenfinch

  Chloris sinica (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  10
• Japanese Bush Warbler

  Horornis diphone (Kittlitz, 1830) · Aves
  10
• White Wagtail

  Motacilla alba Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  10
• Eastern Spot-billed Duck

  Anas zonorhyncha Swinhoe, 1866 · Aves
  9
• Great Cormorant/European Shag

  Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  8
• Japanese Wagtail

  Motacilla grandis Sharpe, 1885 · Aves
  8

Most recent

• M 4.7 — 2026-07-02
  39 km E of Uonuma, Japan
• M 4.3 — 2026-06-01
  9 km E of Asakawa, Japan
• M 4.2 — 2026-05-24
  11 km NNE of Ōmiya, Japan
• M 4.1 — 2026-05-22
  10 km ENE of Kasama, Japan
• M 4.4 — 2026-05-07
  2 km W of Iwase, Japan
• M 4.2 — 2026-05-05
  8 km N of Funehikimachi-funehiki, Japan