[2] Iwakura city is famous for its "Cherry Blossom Festival" which mostly takes place around the end of March every year.

The beautiful Gojō River flows through the city, which, despite its inland location, has an elevation of only eight to twelve meters above sea level.

The area is also the ancestral home of the Yamauchi clan, who dominated Tosa Province under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate.

Iwakura has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 15 members.

In terms of national politics, the city is part of Aichi District 10 of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.

There are a large number of residents in Iwakura from Brazil and city hall public information is always distributed in both English and Portuguese.