was a

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located in Kume District,

Okayama Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Okayama Prefecture has a population of 1,906,464 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 7,114 Square kilometre, km2 (2,746 sq mi). Okayama Prefectur ...

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. As of 2003, the town had an estimated

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of 7,396 and a

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of 99.42 persons per km². The total area was 74.39 km². On February 28, 2005, Kume, along with the town of

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, the village of Aba (both from Tomata District), and the town of Shōboku (from Katsuta District), was merged into the expanded city of

Tsuyama is a city in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 102,294 and a population density of 200 persons per km². The total area was 185.73 km². The area increased in 2005 as the result of a merger with adjacent t ...

and no longer exists as an independent

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Geography

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s: Yoshii River

Adjoining municipalities

** Chūō **

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** Kuse ** Kagamino

Education

*Kyōsyō Elementary School *Chūsei Elementary School *Seidō Elementary School *Shūjitsu Elementary School *Kume Junior High School

Transportation

Railways

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Kishin Line is a railway line operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) between Himeji, Hyōgo and Niimi, Okayama, Japan. The name of the line comes from the first kanji of Himeji () and Niimi () which the line connects. Stations *S: Trains stop *s: ...

***

Tsuboi Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). Lines Tsuboi Station is served by the Kishin Line, and is located 98.3 kilometers from the southern ...

Mimasaka-Sendai Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). Lines Mimasaka-Sendai Station is served by the Kishin Line, and is located 95.6 kilometers from the sou ...

Road

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: **

Chūgoku Expressway The (part of Asian Highway Network ) is an expressway in Japan, which extends from Suita, Osaka to Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi. It connects Kansai and Chūgoku regions in western Honshu, Japan's main island. Other major cities along the expressway ...

***Kume Bus Stop ***Innoshō Interchange (Tsuyama) *

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: ** Route 181 ** Route 429 * Prefectural roads: **Okayama Prefectural Route 70 (Kume- Takebe) **Okayama Prefectural Route 159 (Kume- Chūō) **Okayama Prefectural Route 205 (

) **Okayama Prefectural Route 335 (Yonokami-Kume) **Okayama Prefectural Route 337 (Yamashiro-Miyao) **Okayama Prefectural Route 339 (Nishiichinomiya-Nakagitakami) **Okayama Prefectural Route 340 (Kōmoto-Kume) **Okayama Prefectural Route 341 (Tsuboi-Shimotochibara) **Okayama Prefectural Route 455 (Koyama-Kuwakami) * Roadside Station **Kume no Sato

External links

Official website of Tsuyama
in Japanese (some English content) Dissolved municipalities of Okayama Prefecture {{Okayama-geo-stub