was 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 ori ...

located in Mine District,

Yamaguchi Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Yamaguchi Prefecture has a population of 1,377,631 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 6,112 Square kilometre, km2 (2,359 Square mile, sq mi). Y ...

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 2003, the town has an estimated

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of 6,196 and a

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of 53.89 persons per km². The total area is 114.97 square kilometers. On March 21, 2008, Shūhō, along with the town of Mitō (also from Mine District), was merged into the expanded city of

Mine Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to: Extraction or digging * Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging *Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine Grammar *Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun ...

. The area was known for

Akiyoshi plateau is a Quasi-National Park in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It was founded on 1 November 1955 and has an area of 45.02 km². It includes part of the , a 130 square kilometre area of karst topography, as well as over 400 limestone caves. The ...

and

Akiyoshi cave Akiyoshi (written: or ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese motorcycle racer *, Japanese actress *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese golfer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese American musician *, Japanes ...

External links

Mine City official website
Dissolved municipalities of Yamaguchi Prefecture Populated places disestablished in 2008 2008 disestablishments in Japan Mine, Yamaguchi {{Yamaguchi-geo-stub