was a
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
located in
Seta District,
Gunma Prefecture
is a landlocked Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Gunma Prefecture has a population of 1,937,626 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of . Gunma Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture and Fuk ...
,
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
, on the southeast slope of
Mount Akagi
is a stratovolcano in Gunma Prefecture, Japan.
The broad, low dominantly andesitic stratovolcano rises above the northern end of the Kanto Plain. It contains an elliptical, summit caldera with post-caldera lava domes arranged along a NW–SE ...
. The village split the highest peak of the mountain with
Fujimi.
On June 13, 2005, Kurohone, along with the village of
Niisato (also from
Seta District), was merged into the expanded city of
Kiryū.
The most notable attraction is the Mizunuma Onsen Center (水沼温泉センター), located within Mizunuma Station (水沼駅).
References
Dissolved municipalities of Gunma Prefecture
Kiryū, Gunma
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