was a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...

located in Makabe District,

Ibaraki Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Ibaraki Prefecture has a population of 2,871,199 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Ibaraki Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the north, Tochigi Prefecture ...

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. As of 2003, the village had an estimated

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of 7,331 and a

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of 250.89 persons per km². The total area was 29.22 km². The village was established in 1954. On October 1, 2005, Yamato, along with the town of Makabe (also from Makabe District), and the town of Iwase (from Nishiibaraki District), was merged to create the city of

Sakuragawa 260px, Cherry Blossoms of Sakuragawa is a city located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 39,072 in 13,721 households and a population density of 217 persons per km². The percentage of the population ag ...

External links

Sakuragawa official website
Dissolved municipalities of Ibaraki Prefecture Sakuragawa, Ibaraki {{Ibaraki-geo-stub