is a

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located in Yosa District, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated

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of 1984 in 899 households and a

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of 32 persons per km².The total area of the town is .

Geography

Ine is located in the northern part of Kyoto Prefecture at the northeastern end of the

Tango Peninsula was a province of Japan in the area of northern Kyoto Prefecture. Tango bordered on Tanba to the south, Tajima to the west, and Wakasa to the east. Its abbreviated form name was . It was also referred to as or . In terms of the Gokishichi ...

. Located on the coast of the Sea of Japan, the town faces Wakasa Bay from the northeast to the southeast.

Neighboring municipalities

Kyoto Prefecture *

Miyazu 270px, Miyazu City Hall is a city located in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 16,988 in 8348 households and a population density of 98 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Miyazu is loca ...

* Kyōtango

Climate

Ine has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cold winters with heavy snowfall. The average annual temperature in Ine is 14.4 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1912 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 25.7 °C, and lowest in January, at around 4.1 °C.

Demographics

Per Japanese census data,Ine population statistics
/ref> Ine has suffered greatly from rural depopulation over the past 70 years.

History

The area of the modern town of Ine was within ancient Tango Province, and ports along this coast had trade connections with mainland Asia in ancient times. The town has connections with the Urashima Tarō legend (Tsutsukawa district and Honjo-Hama district ) and with the Xu Fu legend (Nii district) . In the

Edo Period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional ''daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was character ...

, it was part of the area was controlled by Miyazu Domain. The town of Ine was established within Yosa District with the creation of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. The village was bombed by the United States Navy in

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. On November 3, 1954 Ine merged with the neighboring villages of Tsutsukawa, Asadsuma, and Honjo and was raised to town status. In October 2008, Ine was designated one of The Most Beautiful Villages in Japan.

Government

Ine 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 multi ...

town council of 9 members. Ine, together with the city of Miyazu and town of Yosano, contributes one member to the Kyoto Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the town is part of Kyoto 5th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.

Economy

Ine has a mixed economy of commercial and tourism. The town is famous for wooden fishing houses called "Funaya", selected as a National Preservation District for traditional buildings.

Education

Ine has two public elementary schools and one public middle school operated by the town government. The town's one public high school closed in 2020.

Transportation

Railway

Ine has no railway service. The nearest passenger train stations are

Miyazu Station is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Miyazu, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway company Willer Trains (Kyoto Tango Railway). Lines Miyazu Station is the terminus station for all three lines of the Kyot ...

Amanohashidate Station is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Miyazu, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway company Willer Trains (Kyoto Tango Railway). Lines Amanohashidate Station is a station of the Miyazu Line, and is located ...

on the Kyoto Tango Railway in neighboring Miyazu.

Highway

Local attractions

*Ine Funaya (designated National Preservation District for traditional buildings) * Urashima Park * Ura Shrine

In Popular Culture

*1982,

Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san is a 1982 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Ayumi Ishida as his love interest or "Madonna". ''Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san'' is the twenty-ninth entry in the popular, lon ...

*1993, Eenyobo(ええにょぼ) ( Asadora) TV drama was set in a Funaya in Ine.

References

External links

* Towns in Kyoto Prefecture Populated coastal places in Japan {{Kyoto-geo-stub