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located in northern

Mie Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Mie Prefecture has a population of 1,781,948 () and has a geographic area of . Mie Prefecture is bordered by Gifu Prefecture to the north, Shiga Prefecture an ...

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. , the city had an estimated

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of 49,457 in 21,745 households and a

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of 260 persons per km². The total area of the city is .

Geography

Kameyama is located in the north-central part of Mie Prefecture. The Suzuka Mountains are in the northwestern part of the city, and the Nunobiki Mountains are in the southwestern part. More than half of the city's area is forest.

Neighboring municipalities

Mie Prefecture * Iga * Suzuka * Tsu Shiga Prefecture * Kōka

Climate

Kameyama has a

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(Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Kameyama 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 .

Demographics

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/ref> the population of Kameyama has increased slowly over the past 50 years.

History

Kameyama developed as the

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of Kameyama Castle, which belonged to the

Ise-Kameyama Domain was a Han (Japan), feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Ise Province in what is part of now modern-day Kameyama, Mie. It was centered around Kameyama Castle (Mie), Ise-Kameyama Castle. Ise-Kameyama Domain wa ...

under the

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. In the early 17th century, the castle town was Kameyama-juku, the forty-sixth post station of Tōkaidō. Seki-juku and Sakashita-juku on the Tōkaidō, also fall within its borders. During the establishment of the modern municipalities system in the early

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, Kamayama-juku was organized into the town of Kameyama within Suzuka District. It was elevated to city status on October 1, 1954. On January 11, 2005, the town of Seki (also from Suzuka District) was merged into Kameyama.

Government

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

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city council of 18 members. Kameyama contributes one member to the Mie Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Mie 2nd district of the

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of the

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Economy

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are a traditional product of the city.

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has been operating one of the world's largest

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factories in the city since January 8, 2004.

Education

Kameyama has eleven public elementary schools and three public middle schools operated by the city government and one public high school operated by the Mie Prefectural Department of Education. There is also one private high school.

Transportation

Railway

JR Tōkai –

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* - JR Tōkai – Kisei Main Line * -

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* - -

Highway

* 24px, link=, alt=E23 Higashi-Meihan Expressway * 24px, link=, alt=E23 Ise Expressway * 24px, link=, alt=E1A

Shin-Meishin Expressway The or simply ''Shin-Meishin'' for short is an expressway, linking Mie prefecture to Hyōgo Prefecture, which is partially open and partially under construction. The expressways current length as of February 2008 is 49.7 km. It connects t ...

* * *

Local attractions

* Kameyama Castle * Seki-juku

Sister cities

Kameyama is twinned with: *

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, Japan, since 1998 *

Habikino, Osaka 270px, Habikino city office is a city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 109,479 in 50918 households and a population density of 4100 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . The city is known fo ...

, Japan, since 1998

Notable people

* Shiro Hattori - linguist *

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- film director * Kiyoshi Toyoda - baseball player

References

External links

Kameyama City official website
{{Authority control Cities in Mie Prefecture Kameyama, Mie