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located in

Toyama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Toyama Prefecture has a population of 1,044,588 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,247.61 km2 (1,640.01 sq mi). Toyama Prefecture borders Ishikawa Prefecture to the ...

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. , the city had an estimated

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of 93,447 in 37,734 households and a

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of 850 persons per km². Its total area was .

Geography

Imizu is located in the Tonami plains of western Toyama Prefecture, with a coastline on the

Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it h ...

to the north. Much of the area is a dispersed settlement typical of this region of Japan. Himi has a

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freezing ...

(Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by mild summers and cold winters with heavy snowfall. The average annual temperature in Imizu is 14.0 °C. The average annual rainfall is 2380 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.5 °C, and lowest in January, at around 2.7 °C.

Surrounding municipalities

*Toyama Prefecture **

Toyama Toyama may refer to: Places and organizations * Toyama Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan located in the Hokuriku region on the main Honshu island * Toyama, Toyama, the capital city of Toyama Prefecture * Toyama Station, the main station of Toyama, ...

** Takaoka ** Tonami

Demographics

Per Japanese census data, the population of Imizu has remained relatively steady in recent decades.

History

The area of present-day Imizu was part of ancient

Etchū Province was a province of Japan in the area that is today Toyama Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Japan. Etchū bordered on Noto and Kaga Provinces to the west, Shinano and Hida Provinces to the south, Echigo Province to the east and the Sea ...

, and was governed during 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 ...

as part of

Kaga Domain The , also known as the , was a domain of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1583 to 1871.

. The modern city of Imizu was established on November 1, 2005, from the merger of the city of Shinminato, the towns of Daimon, Kosugi and Ōshima, and the village of Shimo (all from Imizu District). Imizu District was dissolved as a result of this merger.

Government

Imizu has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a

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city legislature of 22 members.

Economy

Businesses headquartered in Imizu

* Albis, a retail and wholesale company. *

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Education

Colleges and universities

* Toyama Prefectural University *

Toyama College of Welfare Science is a technical college in Imizu, Toyama, Japan. It is located across the street from Toyama College of Welfare Science. External links Official website
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Toyama National College of Technology is a college of technology in Toyama and Imizu, Toyama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Toyama Prefecture has a population of 1,044,588 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,247.61 km2 (1, ...

(Imizu Campus)

Primary and secondary education

Imizu has fifteen public elementary schools and six public middle schools operated by the town government, and three public high schools operated by the Toyama Prefectural Board of Education. The prefectural also operates two vocational schools in Imizu.

Transportation

Railway

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Ainokaze Toyama Railway The is a Japanese third-sector railway operating company established in 2012 to operate passenger railway services on the section of the JR West Hokuriku Main Line within Toyama Prefecture when it was separated from the JR West network in Mar ...

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Man'yōsen Shinminatokō Line The is a rail line located in Imizu, Toyama, Imizu and Takaoka, Toyama, Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, Japan, operated by Manyosen. Line data *Total distance: 4.9 km *Gauge: 1,067 mm *Stations: 8 *Double track sections: none (entire line ...

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Highway

* Hokuriku Expressway * * *

Local attractions

*Kaiwomaru Park, with the training

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'' Kaiwo Maru''. *

Kosugimaruyama Site The is an archaeological site with the ruins of a late Asuka period pottery production site located in what is now the Aoidani neighborhood of the city of Imizu, Toyama Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Japan. It has been protected as a Nati ...

, an archaeological park with the ruins of a late

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pottery production site. It is a National Historic Site. *

Kushidashin Site The is an archaeological site containing the remnants of a late Jōmon period settlement and encompassing two circular Kofun period kofun, burial mounds located in what is now the Daimon, Toyama, Daimon neighborhood of the city of Imizu, Toyama in ...

, an archaeological park containing the remnants of a late

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settlement and two circular

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burial mounds. It is a National Historic Site.

Noted people from Imizu

* Matsutaro Shoriki, media mogul, politician, and the father of

Japanese professional baseball Professional baseball in Japan first started in the 1920s, but it was not until the was established in 1934 that the modern professional game had continued success. History Baseball was introduced to Japan in 1872 by Horace Wilson, and its first ...

. * Atsushi Yanagisawa, professional football player. *

Shinosuke Tatekawa is a rakugo performer. His real name is . With his comic group, Rokunin-no-Kai (Group of Six), formed in 2003, he has helped to popularise rakugo among young Japanese people. He is also well known as a TV presenter, and has presented the primeti ...

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performer, and TV presenter. *

Bungo Tsuda was a Japanese politician. He served as governor of Kanagawa Prefecture from April 23, 1967 until April 22, 1975. Tsuda was born in Kosugi, Toyama and died at the age of 89 of colorectal cancer in Yokohama is the second-largest city in ...

, politician. *

Megumi Tachimoto is a former Japanese female judoka is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM vers ...

, judoka

References

External links

* * {{Toyama Cities in Toyama Prefecture Populated coastal places in Japan