is a

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located in

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 ...

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 the April 1, 2005 merger (but using 2003 population statistics), the district has an estimated

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of 40,084 and a

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of 66 persons per km². The total area is 610.02 km².

Towns and villages

Kami are the deities, divinities, spirits, phenomena or "holy powers", that are venerated in the Shinto religion. They can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, or beings and the qualities that these beings express; they can also be the sp ...

* Shin'onsen

Mergers

*On April 1, 2005 the towns of Mikata and Muraoka merged with the town of

Kasumi Kasumi may refer to: Places * Kasumi, Hyōgo (香住), a former town in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan * Kasumigaseki (霞が関 "Gate of Mist"), a district in downtown Tokyo * Kasumi, Jajce, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina Other uses * Kasumi (gi ...

, from Kinosaki District, to form the new town of

. *On October 1, 2005 the towns of Hamasaka and

Onsen In Japan, are the country's hot springs and the bathing facilities and traditional inns around them. As a volcanically active country, Japan has many onsens scattered throughout all of its major islands. There are approximately 25,000 hot ...

merged to form the town of Shin'onsen.

Points of interest

Tajima Plateau Botanical Gardens The are botanical gardens located at 709 Wachi, Muraoka-cho, Mikata-gun, Kami, Hyōgo, Japan. They are open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The gardens were established in 1997, and now contain more than 1,000 native ...

* Antaiji Zen monastery

References

Districts in Hyōgo Prefecture {{Hyogo-geo-stub