was a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

located in Kamo District,

Shizuoka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,637,998 and has a geographic area of . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northea ...

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 ...

. As of 2005, the village had an estimated

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of 3,291 and a

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of 83 persons per km². The total area was 39.64 km². On April 1, 2005, Kamo was merged into the expanded town of

Nishiizu file:Nishiizu town hall.JPG, 250px, Nishiizu Town Hall file:Nishiizu 20121019.jpg, 250px, Coastline of Nishiizu is a List of towns in Japan, town located in Kamo District, Shizuoka, Kamo District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an esti ...

and thus no longer exists as an independent

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Points of interest

Atagawa Tropical & Alligator Garden The is a botanical garden with alligators located in the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park at 971-9 Naramoto, Higashiizu-cho, Kamo, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is open daily. An admission fee is charged. The garden opened in 1958. According to ...

Shimokamo Tropical Botanical Gardens The , also known as the Shimokamo Tropical Garden, are botanical gardens located at Shimokamo Spa, 255 Shimokamo, Minami Izu-cho, Kamo, Shizuoka, Japan. The garden contains about 2,000 species of tropical plants, including banana, bougainvillea, ...

External links

Nishiizu official website

Dissolved municipalities of Shizuoka Prefecture Nishiizu, Shizuoka {{Shizuoka-geo-stub