is a

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located in Kako District,

Hyōgo Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,469,762 () and has a geographic area of . Hyōgo Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the east, Osaka Prefecture to the southeast, an ...

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. , the town had an estimated

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of 30,622 in 12843 households and a

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of 880 persons per km². The total area of the town is .

Geography

Inami is located in the southern part of Hyogo prefecture and belongs to the Kobe metropolitan area. It is located on the Innanno Plateau between the Kakogawa and Akashi Rivers.

Neighbouring municipalities

Hyōgo Prefecture *

Kobe Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whic ...

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* Kakogawa *

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Climate

Inami has a

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(Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light snowfall. The average annual temperature in Inami is 15.3 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1462 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.6 °C, and lowest in January, at around 4.6 °C.

Demographics

Per Japanese census data,Inami population statistics
/ref> the population of Inami grew slowly until the 1970s, until the 2000s and has since leveled off.

History

The area of the modern town of Inami was within ancient

Harima Province or Banshū (播州) was a province of Japan in the part of Honshū that is the southwestern part of present-day Hyōgo Prefecture. Harima bordered on Tajima, Tanba, Settsu, Bizen, and Mimasaka Provinces. Its capital was Himeji. During the ...

, and as a place name is mentioned in the

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''. In the

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, the area was part of the holdings of

Himeji Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Harima Province in what is now the southern portion of modern-day Hyōgo Prefecture. It was centered around Himeji Castle, which is located in what is now the ...

. Following the

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, the villages of Kakoshin, Mori and Tenman and Hase were created within Kako District, Hyōgo with the creation of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. The three villages merged on March 31, 1955 to form the town of Inami.

Government

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

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town council of 14 members. Inami, together with the town of Harima, contributes one member to the

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. In terms of national politics, the town is part of Hyōgo 14th district of the

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of the

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Economy

Inami has a mixed economy of agriculture and light manufacturing.

Education

Inami has five public elementary schools and two public middle schools operated by the town government and one public high school operated by the Hyōgo Prefectural Department of Education. The prefecture also operates a special education school for the handicapped.

Transportation

Railway

Inami is not served by any passenger railway lines. The nearest stations are

Tsuchiyama Station is a passenger railway station located in the town of Harima, Kako District, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West). Lines Tsuchiyama Station is served by the JR San'yō Main Line, and is located 32.2 ki ...

Harima or Banshū (播州) was a province of Japan in the part of Honshū that is the southwestern part of present-day Hyōgo Prefecture. Harima bordered on Tajima, Tanba, Settsu, Bizen, and Mimasaka Provinces. Its capital was Himeji. During the ...

or Higashi-Kakogawa Station in

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, both on the

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San'yō Main Line The is a major railway line owned by JR Group companies in western Japan, connecting Kōbe Station and Moji Station, largely paralleling the coast of the Seto Inland Sea, Inland Sea, in other words, the southern coast of western Honshu. The Sa ...

Highway

Inami is not located on any National Expressway or National Highway.

Local attraction

* Banshū Winery ruins, National Historic Site

References

External links

*
Inami official website
Towns in Hyōgo Prefecture {{Hyogo-geo-stub