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was a
was a town
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located in Kōka District, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
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. There was Ishibe-juku
260px, Reconstructed building based on Hiroshige's print
was the fifty-first of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. It was located in the present-day city of Konan, Shiga Prefectur ...
in Edo period
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As of 2003, the town had an estimated population
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of 12,418 and a density
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of 931.58 persons per km2. The total area was 13.33 km2
On October 1, 2004, Ishibe, along with the town of Kōsei (also from Kōka District), was merged to create the city of Konan. An NSK Bearings plant is located here.
Dissolved municipalities of Shiga Prefecture
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