was a
town located in
Ibo District,
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 ...
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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 ...
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As of 2003, the town had an estimated
population of 17,139 and a
density of 172.16 persons per km
2. The total area was 99.55 km
2.
On October 1, 2005, Shingū, along with the towns of
Ibogawa and
Mitsu (all from
Ibo District), was merged into the expanded city of
Tatsuno.
The town of Shingū lied approximately 35 km west of the city of
Himeji. The town consisted of numerous old homes of traditional Japanese design and sits among abundant rice fields. The town is surrounded on three sides by mountains of several hundred feet.
Dissolved municipalities of Hyōgo Prefecture
Tatsuno, Hyōgo
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