was a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

located in

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Gifu Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Gifu Prefecture has a population of 1,991,390 () and has a geographic area of . Gifu Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to the north; Ishikawa Prefecture to the northwest, F ...

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. As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 2,088 and a population density of 11.14 persons per km². The total area was 187.37 km². On February 1, 2005, Asahi, along with the town of Kuguno, and the villages of

Kiyomi (''Citrus unshiu'' × '' sinensis'') is a Japanese citrus fruit that is a hybrid of a ''Miyagawa Wase'' mikan and an orange. The new breed was the first tangor created in Japan in 1949. It was named Kiyomi after the temple and the lagoon near ...

, Miya, Nyūkawa, Shōkawa and Takane (all from

), the town of

Kokufu are the capitals of the historical Provinces of Japan. History As part of the Taika Reform (645) which aimed at a centralization of the administration following the Chinese model (''ritsuryō''), the kokufu and with it the office of the kokush ...

, and the village of Kamitakara (both from Yoshiki District), was merged into the expanded city of Takayama and no longer exists as an independent

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

. The village was once located in Mashita District (~April 1, 1950). Along with the village of Takane, the village was transferred to

on April 1, 1950, which lasted until February 1, 2005.

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External links

Official website of Takayama
Dissolved municipalities of Gifu Prefecture Takayama, Gifu {{Gifu-geo-stub