IDAHO FALLS SISTER CITIES YOUTH DELEGATION
About Tokai-Mura
Tokai Mura is a mountainous seaside village in the center of Japan’s Ibaraki prefecture. It is home to around 38,000 people.
What is a sister city? Why Tokai-Mura?
A sister city is a relationship or long-term partnership between two communities and two countries. The Idaho Falls-Tokai Mura sister cities program was established in 1981.
Tokai and Idaho falls are sister cities because they share a variety of similar traits. Both are mountainous and in the countryside, and are homes of major nuclear power plants.
Celebrating Tokai-Mura in Idaho Falls
Since establishing a Sister City with Tokai Mura in 1981, the city of Idaho Falls has opened a Japanese Friendship Garden in their honor that the city, youth, and adult groups manage and care for year-round. It contains stone paths, pagodas, Japanese fencings, and a pavilion with a direct view of the falls. It is located in Idaho Falls on West Broadway next to Key Bank.
To learn more about the Idaho Falls Japanese Friendship Garden, Visit:
We are currently putting together a special room and koi fish display dedicated to Tokai Mura and our past exchanges at the Idaho Falls Public Library in Idaho Falls located at 547 W Broadway St.