is a

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located in

Nagano Prefecture is a Landlocked country, landlocked Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,007,682 () and has a geographic area of . Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture ...

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. As of November 1, 2005, the district has an estimated

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of 34,759 with a

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of 22.48 persons per km². The total area is 1,546.26 km².

Municipalities

The district consists of three towns and three villages: * Agematsu * Kiso Town * Kiso Village * Nagiso * Ōkuwa * Ōtaki ;Notes:

History

Historically, the district was once known as until May 1, 1968.

District Timeline

* May 1, 1968 - The district was renamed to Kiso District.

Recent mergers

* February 13, 2005 - The village of Yamaguchi was merged into the expanded city of Nakatsugawa (located in

Gifu Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Gifu Prefecture has a population of 1,910,511 () and has a geographic area of . Gifu Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to the north; Ishikawa Prefecture ...

). * April 1, 2005 - The village of Narakawa was merged into the expanded city of Shiojiri. * November 1, 2005 - The town of Kisofukushima was merged with the villages of Mitake,

Hiyoshi is a part of the city of Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is located within Kōhoku Ward in the northeast of Yokohama City. Overview It is served by Hiyoshi Station on the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line and Yokohama Subway. It is approximate ...

and Kaida to form the new town of Kiso.

Points of interest

Nakasendō The , also called the ,Richard Lane, ''Images from the Floating World'' (1978) Chartwell, Secaucus ; pg. 285 was one of the centrally administered Edo Five Routes, five routes of the Edo period, and one of the two that connected the ''de facto'' ...

, a former trade route between

Edo Edo (), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo. Edo, formerly a (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the '' de facto'' capital of Japan from 1603 as the seat of the Tokugawa shogu ...

(modern-day

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) and

Kyoto Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it t ...

. *

Tsumago-juku was the forty-second of the sixty-nine post towns on the Nakasendō. It is located in Nagiso, Kiso District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. It has been restored to its appearance as an Edo-era post town and is now a popular tourist destination. H ...

, a restored post town on the Nakasendō.

References