Akiha Ward Office
Akiha may refer to: *Mount Akiha, mountain in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan *Akiha-ku, Niigata is one of the eight wards of Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. , the ward had an estimated population of 76,086 in 29,843 households and a population density of 800 persons per km². The total area of the ward w ...

Mount Akiha
is a mountain in Tenryū-ku, Hamamatsu (in the former town of Haruno), Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is a peak on a southern spur of the Akaishi Mountains. Mount Akiha has an elevation of . It is the location of the Akihasan Hongū Akiha Jinja shrine, dedicated to a god of fire. Belief in the Akiha ''kami'' as protectors against fire became widespread in the Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ... of Japanese history, leading to the popularity of pilgrimages to climb this mountain. Akiha {{Shizuoka-geo-stub ...
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