is a

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located in

Sennan District is a district located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. As of 2009, the district has an estimated population of 70,631 and a density of 991 persons per km2. The total area is 71.27 km2. At one time Peach Aviation had its head office in a locatio ...

Osaka Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Osaka Prefecture has a population of 8,778,035 () and has a geographic area of . Osaka Prefecture borders Hyōgo Prefecture to the northwest, Kyoto Prefecture ...

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. , 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 8,492 in 4010 households and a

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of 1500 persons per km². The total area of the town is .

Geography

Tajiri is located at the southwestern tip of Osaka Prefecture, facing

Osaka Bay Osaka Bay (大阪湾 ''Ōsaka-wan'' ) is a bay in western Japan. As an eastern part of the Seto Inland Sea, it is separated from the Pacific Ocean by the Kii Channel and from the neighbor western part of the Inland Sea by the Akashi Strait. ...

. The central portion of

Kansai International Airport Kansai International Airport ( ja, 関西国際空港, Kansai Kokusai Kūkō) commonly known as is the primary international airport in the Greater Osaka Area of Japan and the closest international airport to the cities of Osaka, Kyoto, and K ...

is located in the town boundary.航空運送事業の許可について（Peach・Aviation 株式会社）
"

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism The , abbreviated MLIT, is a ministry of the Japanese government.国土交通省設置法

. July 7, 2011 (

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23). Retrieved on July 21, 2011. "１．本社所在地大阪府泉南郡田尻町泉州空港中１番地（関西空港内）" It is the smallest town in Japan in terms of geographic area.

Neighboring municipalities

Osaka Prefecture *

Izumisano Izumisano ( ja, 泉佐野市, Latn, ja, Izumisano-shi, ) is a city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 98,840 in 47658 households and a population density of 1700 persons per km². The total area of the c ...

* Sennan

Climate

Tajiri has a

Humid subtropical climate A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents (except Antarctica), generally between latitudes 25° and 40° ...

(Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Tajiri is . The average annual rainfall is with October as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around , and lowest in January, at around .

Demographics

Per Japanese census data, the population of Tajiri has been fluctuating over the past 50 years.

History

The area of the modern town of Tajiri was within ancient

Izumi Province :''The characters ''泉州'' are also used for the name of the Chinese city of Quanzhou''. was a province of Japan in the area of southern Osaka Prefecture. Tango bordered on Kii to the south, Yamato and Kawachi to the west, and Settsu to ...

. During the

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, the area was divided between the holdings of

Kishiwada Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Izumi Province in what is now the southern portion of modern-day Osaka Prefecture. It was centered around Kishiwada Castle and was controlled by the '' fudai dai ...

and

Mikami Domain was a '' Fudai'' feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. It was located in eastern Ōmi Province, in the Kansai region of central Honshu. The domain was centered at Mikami ''jin'ya'', located in what is now the city of ...

. The village of Tajiri was established within Hine District of Osaka Prefecture with the creation of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. On April 1, 1896, the area became part of

Sennan District, Osaka is a district located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. As of 2009, the district has an estimated population of 70,631 and a density of 991 persons per km2. The total area is 71.27 km2. At one time Peach Aviation had its head office in a locati ...

. Tajiri was raised to town status on May 3, 1953

Government

Tajiri has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a

unicameral Unicameralism (from ''uni''- "one" + Latin ''camera'' "chamber") is a type of legislature, which consists of one house or assembly, that legislates and votes as one. Unicameral legislatures exist when there is no widely perceived need for multic ...

city council of 10 members. Tajiri collectively with the cities of Kaizuka, Sennan, and Hannan contributes two members to the

Osaka Prefectural Assembly The is the legislature of Osaka Prefecture. As in all prefectures, it is elected to four-year terms by single non-transferable vote in multi- and single-member districts and is responsible for enacting and amending prefectural by-laws, approving ...

. In terms of national politics, the town is part of Osaka 19th district of the

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of the

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Economy

The economy of Tajiri is centered on

commercial fishing Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit, mostly from wild fisheries. It provides a large quantity of food to many countries around the world, but those who practice it as an industry must often ...

, agriculture and textiles. Due to the proximity to Kansai International Airport, aviation-related support industries are also located in the town. At one time

Peach Aviation , operating as Peach, is a Japanese budget airline. Its head office is at Kansai International Airport and in Tajiri, Osaka, Tajiri, Osaka Prefecture. History Peach was formed in February 2011 as A&F Aviation, a joint venture between All Ni ...

had its headquarters in a location that was on the airport property and in the town.About Us
."

. Retrieved on July 21, 2011. "Tajiri-cho, Sennangun, Osaka, Japan
Address in Japanese
: "本社所在地大阪府泉南郡田尻町"

Education

Tajiri has one public elementary school and one public middle school operated by the town government. The town does not have a high school.

Transportation

Railway

Nankai Electric Railway is a private railway in Japan, founded in 1884. The name ''Nankai'' (which means "South Sea") comes from the company's routes along the Nankaidō, the old highway that ran south from the old capital, Kyoto, along the sea coast. Nankai predates a ...

Nankai Main Line The is one of the two main railway lines of Japanese private railway company Nankai Electric Railway, together with Kōya Line. The route is from Namba Station in south downtown of Osaka to Wakayamashi Station in Wakayama via Sakai, Izumiōtsu ...

Nankai Airport Line * JR logo (west)

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– Kansai Airport Line *

Highway

Local attractions

*Tajiri Historic House

Gallery

File:Tajiri historic house01s3200.jpg, Tajiri Historic House File:Kix aerial photo.jpg,

References

External links

*
Tajiri official website
* Towns in Osaka Prefecture Populated coastal places in Japan Tajiri, Osaka {{Osaka-geo-stub