was a
town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
located in
Tagata District,
Shizuoka Prefecture,
Japan.
As of March 1, 2004, final population data before the amalgamation, the town had an estimated
population
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a ...
of 7,677 and a
density
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of 56.8 persons per km
2. The total area was 135.14 km
2.
On April 1, 2004, Amagiyugashima, along with the towns of
Nakaizu,
Shuzenji and
Toi (all from
Tagata District), was merged to create the city of
Izu Izu may refer to:
Places
*Izu Province, a part of modern-day Shizuoka prefecture in Japan
**Izu, Shizuoka, a city in Shizuoka prefecture
**Izu Peninsula, near Tokyo
**Izu Islands, located off the Izu Peninsula
People with the surname
*, Japane ...
.
Amagiyugashima was noted for its production of ''
wasabi
Wasabi ( Japanese: , , or , ; ''Eutrema japonicum'' or ''Wasabia japonica'') or Japanese horseradish is a plant of the family Brassicaceae, which also includes horseradish and mustard in other genera. The plant is native to Japan and the Russi ...
''. It was also the location of the Amagi Tunnel, a tourist attraction based on a famous scene in
Yasunari Kawabata
was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal a ...
's novel ''The Dancing Girl of Izu''.
External links
Izu City official website(Japanese)
Dissolved municipalities of Shizuoka Prefecture
Izu, Shizuoka
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