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is a
town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
located in
Nagano Prefecture
is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,052,493 () and has a geographic area of . Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture to the north, Gunma Prefecture to the ...
,
Japan
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. , the town had an estimated
population
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of 7,147 in 2834 households, and a
population density
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of 110 persons per km². The total area of the town is . Tateshina is famous for its apple orchards.
Geography
Tateshina is located in the
Tateshina Mountainous of central Nagano Prefecture.
Surrounding municipalities
*Nagano Prefecture
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Places
*Saku, Nagano, a city in Japan
*Saku, Nagano (Minamisaku), a town in Japan
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Chino
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Tōmi
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Ueda
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Nagawa
Climate
The town has a climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and cold winters (
Köppen climate classification
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''Dwa''). The average annual temperature in Tateshina is . The average annual rainfall is with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around , and lowest in January, at around .
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History
The area of present-day Tateshina was part of ancient Shinano Province
or is an old province of Japan that is now Nagano Prefecture.
Shinano bordered on Echigo, Etchū, Hida, Kai, Kōzuke, Mikawa, Mino, Musashi, Suruga, and Tōtōmi Provinces. The ancient capital was located near modern-day Matsumoto, whi ...
, and Ashida-shuku was the twenty-sixth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day town of Tateshina, in the Kitasaku District of Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
History
Ashida-shuku was formed in 1601, during the Edo period, when the ...
developed as a post station on the Nakasendō
The , also called the ,Richard Lane, ''Images from the Floating World'' (1978) Chartwell, Secaucus ; pg. 285 was one of the five routes of the Edo period, and one of the two that connected Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto in Japan. There were 6 ...
highway connecting Edo with Kyoto
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. The village of Ashida, Yokotori and Mitsuwa were created with the establishment of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. These three villages merged to form the village of Tateshina on April 1, 1955. Tateshina was raised to town status on October 1, 1953.
Demographics
Per Japanese census data, the population of Tateshina has declined in recent decades.
Education
Tateshina has one public elementary school and one public middle school operated by the town government, and one high school operated the Nagano Prefectural Board of Education.
Transportation
Railway
*The town does not have any passenger rail service.
Highway
*
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Sister City
* - Oregon City, Oregon
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, USA, sister city
Local attractions
*Ashida-shuku was the twenty-sixth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day town of Tateshina, in the Kitasaku District of Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
History
Ashida-shuku was formed in 1601, during the Edo period, when the ...
, post station on the Nakasendo
* Lake Megami
References
External links
*
Official Website
Towns in Nagano Prefecture
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