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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. , the city had an estimated

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of 50,828 in 19,979 households, and a

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of 334 persons per km². The total area of the city is .

Geography

Suzaka is located in northern Nagano Prefecture on the

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where the Matsukawa River joins the

Chikuma River The , known as the in its upper reaches, is the longest and widest river in Japan and the third largest by basin area (behind the Tone River and Ishikari River). It is located in northeastern Honshu, rising in the Japanese Alps and flowing g ...

Surrounding municipalities

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 ...

** Tsumagoi *Nagano Prefecture ** Nagano ** Obuse ** Takayama **

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Climate

The city has a climate characterized by characterized by hot and humid summers, and relatively mild winters (

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''Cfa''). The average annual temperature in Suzaka is 10.5 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1189 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 23.8 °C, and lowest in January, at around -2.2 °C.

Demographics

Per Japanese census data, the population of Suzaka has remained relatively stable over the past 40 years.

History

Suzaka is located in former

Shinano Province or is an old province of Japan that is now Nagano Prefecture. Shinano bordered Echigo, Etchū, Hida, Kai, Kōzuke, Mikawa, Mino, Musashi, Suruga, and Tōtōmi Provinces. The ancient capital was located near modern-day Matsumoto, whi ...

and was a

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for

Suzaka Domain was a Han (Japan), feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. It was located in Shinano Province (modern-day Nagano Prefecture) in central Honshū. The domain was centered at Jin'ya, Suzaka Jin’ya, located in what is now pa ...

under the

Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

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. In the post-

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cadastral reform of April 1,1 1889, the modern town of Suzaka was established. Suzuka annexed the village of Hitaki on December 1, 1936 and the villages of Hino and Toyosu on February 11, 1954. Suzaka was elevated to city status on April 1, 1954. On January 1, 1955, Suzaka annexed the neighbouring villages of Inoue and Takahe, followed by the village of Azuma on April 30, 1971.

Government

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

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city legislature of 20 members.

Economy

The city was noted in the

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for its silk industry. After World War II, an electronics industry was established. Fujitsu Corporation has a plant in Suzaka.Fujitsu official home page
/ref> The city is also noted for apples and grapes, and the Prefectural Agricultural Research Station is located in Suzaka.

Education

Suzaka has eleven public elementary schools and four public middle schools operated by the city government, and three public high schools operated by the Nagano Prefectural Board of Education.

Transportation

Railway

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Nagano Electric Railway The is a private railway based in Nagano, Nagano, Nagano, Japan. The company and its line are commonly referred to as . It originally operated three lines, but only the Nagano Line between Nagano — Suzaka — Shinshū-Nakano — ...

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Highway

Jōshin-etsu Expressway The is a national expressway in Japan. It is owned and operated by East Nippon Expressway Company. Naming is a kanji acronym consisting of 3 characters, each representing the former names of the prefectures that the route traverses. consis ...

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International relations

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Siping, Jilin Siping ( zh, s=四平, p=Sìpíng), formerly Sipingjie ( zh, s=四平街, p=Sìpíngjiē, w=Ssupingchieh), is a prefecture-level city in the west of Jilin province, China, People's Republic of China. It has a total population of 1,814,733 inhabit ...

, China, friendship city since May 12, 1994

Local attractions

* Garyu Park, one of Japan's Top 100 Sakura Spots * Suzaka Municipal Zoo *

Yonako Falls , literally "Yonako Large Waterfalls" The Yonako Falls is so called locally, but is elsewhere often referred to as the "Yonago Falls" because the two "Yonako" Kanji characters (米子) are pronounced as "Yonago" for Yonago, Tottori, a better known ...

, one of Japan's Top 100 Waterfalls

References

External links

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Official Website
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