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 town had an estimated

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of 7,147 in 2834 households, and a

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of 110 persons per km². The total area of the town is . Tateshina is famous for its apple orchards.

Geography

Tateshina is located in the Tateshina Mountainous of central Nagano Prefecture.

Surrounding municipalities

*Nagano Prefecture ** Chino ** Nagawa ** Saku ** Tōmi **

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Climate

The town has a climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and cold winters (

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''Dwa''). The average annual temperature in Tateshina 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 .

History

The area of present-day Tateshina was part of ancient

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

Ashida-shuku was the twenty-sixth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day town of Tateshina, in the Kitasaku District of Nagano Prefecture, Japan. History Ashida-shuku was formed in , during the Edo period, when the Na ...

developed as a post station on the

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'' ...

highway connecting

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with

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 ...

. The village of Ashida, Yokotori and Mitsuwa were created with the establishment of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. These three villages merged to form the village of Tateshina on April 1, 1955. Tateshina was raised to town status on October 1, 1953.

Demographics

Per Japanese census data, the population of Tateshina has declined in recent decades.

Education

Tateshina has one public elementary school and one public middle school operated by the town government, and one high school operated the Nagano Prefectural Board of Education.

Transportation

Railway

*The town does not have any passenger rail service.

Highway

* *

Sister City

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Local attractions

, post station on the Nakasendo * Lake Megami

References

External links

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Official Website
Towns in Nagano Prefecture {{Nagano-geo-stub