270px, Ino Town Hall
270px, Ino Paper Museum
is a
town
A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city.
The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
located in
Agawa District,
Kōchi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kōchi Prefecture has a population of 669,516 (1 April 2023) and has a geographic area of 7,103 km2 (2,742 sq mi). Kōchi Prefecture borders Ehime Prefecture to the northwest and Tok ...
,
Japan
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. , the town had an estimated
population
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of 21,672 in 10403 households and a
population density
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of 46 persons per km².
The total area of the town is . The town is famous for the production of .
Geography
Ino is located in the
Shikoku Mountains of north-central Kōchi Prefecture.
Neighbouring municipalities
Ehime Prefecture
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Kumakōgen
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Niihama
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Saijō
Kōchi Prefecture
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Hidaka
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Kōnan
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Niyodogawa
270px, Nakatsu Gorge
270px, Tea plantations in Niyodogawa
is a town located in Agawa District, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 4‚861 in 2,788 households and a population density of 15 persons per km2. The ...
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Ochi
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Ōkawa
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Tosa
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Tosa
Climate
Ino has a
humid subtropical climate
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(
Köppen climate classification
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''Cfa'') with hot, humid summers and cool winters. There is significant precipitation throughout the year, especially during June and July. The average annual temperature in Ino 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 .
[ The highest temperature ever recorded in Ino was on 11 July 1994; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 15 January 1985.][
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Demographics
Per Japanese census data, the population of Ino in 2020 is 21,374 people.[ Ino has been conducting censuses since 1920. As with the general aging of Japan, Ino faces demographic challenges with many local businesses struggling to find enough workers and closing down.]
History
As with all of Kōchi Prefecture, the area of Ino was part of ancient Tosa Province
was a province of Japan in the area of southern Shikoku. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Tosa''" in . Tosa bordered on Awa to the northeast, and Iyo to the northwest. Its abbreviated form name was . In terms of the Gokishichidō syst ...
. During the Edo period
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, the area was part of the holdings of Tosa Domain
The was a Han (Japan), feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, controlling all of Tosa Province in what is now Kōchi Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. It was centered around Kōchi Castle, and was ruled throughout its ...
ruled by the Yamauchi clan from their seat at Kōchi Castle. Following the Meiji restoration
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, the village of Ino was established within Agawa District, Kōchi with the creation of the modern municipalities system on October 1, 1889. On October 1, 2004 the village of Gohoku, also from Agawa District, and the village of Hongawa, from Tosa District, were merged into Ino, increasing its size by almost a factor of five.
Government
Ino 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 consisting of one house or assembly that legislates and votes as one. Unicameralism has become an increasingly common type of legislature, making up nearly ...
town council of 18 members. Ino, together with the municipalities of Agawa District, contributes two members to the Kōchi Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the town is part of Kōchi 2nd district of the lower house
A lower house is the lower chamber of a bicameral legislature, where the other chamber is the upper house. Although styled as "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide, the lower house has come to wield more power or otherwise e ...
of the Diet of Japan
, transcription_name = ''Kokkai''
, legislature = 215th Session of the National Diet
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, house_type = Bicameral
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.
Economy
Traditionally, agriculture, forestry and paper production were mainstays of the local economy.
Education
Ino has seven public elementary schools and five public middle schools operated by the town government and two public high schools operated by the Kōchi Prefectural Department of Education.
Transportation
Railway
JR Shikoku
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- Dosan Line
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25px Tosaden Kōtsū - Ino Line (tram line)
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Highways
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Kōchi Expressway
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Sister cities
* Cotia, São Paulo
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, Brazil
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, since June 16, 1966
Local attractions
* Ino Paper Museum
Noted people from Ino
* Arase Nagahide, sumo wrestler and television personality
References
External links
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Ino official website
Towns in Kōchi Prefecture
Ino, Kōchi
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