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was a
town
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Origin and use
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located in
Echi District,
Shiga Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Shiga Prefecture has a population of 1,412,916 (1 October 2015) and has a geographic area of . Shiga Prefecture borders Fukui Prefecture to the north, Gifu Prefecture to the nort ...
,
Japan
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. It developed as
Echigawa-juku
260px, Surviving ''hatago'' of Echigawa-juku
was the sixty-fifth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. It was located in the present-day town of Aishō, Echi District, Shiga Prefec ...
in
Edo period
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.
As of 2003, the town had an estimated
population
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of 11,411 and a
density
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of 881.84 persons per km
2. The total area was 12.94 km
2.
On February 13, 2006, Echigawa, along with the town of
Hatashō (also from
Echi District), was merged to create the town of
Aishō.
Sister city
*
West Bend,
Wisconsin
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, United States
External links
Aishō Official Web site
Dissolved municipalities of Shiga Prefecture
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