was a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

located in Namegata District,

Ibaraki Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Ibaraki Prefecture has a population of 2,871,199 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Ibaraki Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the north, ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. It is now a part of the city of

Namegata is a city located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 32,144 in 11,412 households and a population density of 144.5 persons per km². The percentage of the population aged over 65 was 35.9%. The total area of ...

. As of 2003, the town had an estimated

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of 16,221 and a

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of 268.65 persons per km². The total area was 60.38 km². On September 2, 2005, Asō, along with the towns of Kitaura and Tamatsukuri (all from Namegata District), were merged to create the city of

and it ceases 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 ...

External links

Namegata official website
Dissolved municipalities of Ibaraki Prefecture Populated places established in 1955 Populated places disestablished in 2005 2005 disestablishments in Japan 1955 establishments in Japan {{Ibaraki-geo-stub