is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an o ...

located in Kamimashiki District,

Kumamoto Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Kumamoto Prefecture has a population of 1,748,134 () and has a geographic area of . Kumamoto Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the north, Ōita Prefecture to ...

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. As of March 2017, the town has an estimated

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of 33,001 and a

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of 500 persons per km². The total area is 65.67 km².

Kumamoto Airport , also known as , is an airport in Mashiki, Kumamoto, Japan. History The first Kumamoto Airport opened in 1960 on the site of a former Imperial Japanese Army air base and had a 1,200 m runway. It was replaced by the current Kumamoto Airport i ...

is located in Mashiki. Kumamoto Airport Entrance 2007

Mashiki was near the epicenter of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, leading to fire and rubble killing at least 40 people.

Geography

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Notable People from Mashiki

Minoru Hata is a Japanese footballer who plays for Kagoshima United FC is a Japanese professional football club based in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan that was formed from the merger of ''Volca Kagoshima'' and ''FC Kagoshima''. Both clubs p ...

, football player *

Shuhei Kamimura is a Japanese football player for Roasso Kumamoto is a Japanese football club based in Kumamoto, the capital city of Kumamoto Prefecture. The club currently plays in the J2 League, which is the second tier of football in the country. ''Roa ...

, football player *

Taishin Morikawa is a Japanese football player for Verspah Oita. Club statistics ''Updated to 23 February 2017''.Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社"2016J1&J2&J3選手名鑑" 10 February 2016, Japan, (p. 209 out of 289) ...

, football player *

Hiroki Noda is a Japanese football player who currently plays for Montedio Yamagata in the J2 League. His regular playing position is centre-back. Senior career Noda made 5 appearances for J2 League outfit Roasso Kumamoto in 2014 and 2015 while he was ...

, football player *

Ryota Sakata is a Japanese former footballer who last played for Tochigi SC , commonly referred to as Tochigi SC are a football club based in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. They currently play in the J2 League. History Teachers in Tochigi Pre ...

, football player * Shintaro Shimada, football player

References

External links

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Mashiki official website
Towns in Kumamoto Prefecture {{Kumamoto-geo-stub