Country Japan Website www.city.mino.gifu.jp Prefecture Gifu Prefecture Flower Plum blossom | Region Chūbu Area 117 km² Local time Monday 11:36 PM | |
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Time zone Japan Standard Time (UTC+9) City hall address 1350 Mino-shi, Gifu-ken
501-3792 Weather 6°C, Wind N at 6 km/h, 97% Humidity Points of interest Daiyata Shrine, Suhara Shrine, Hongenji | ||
Mino (美濃市, Mino-shi) is a city located in the Gifu Prefecture of central Japan, founded on April 1, 1954.As of July 2011, the city has an estimated population of 22,447 and a population density of 190 persons per km². The total area is 117.05 km². The city is renowned for traditional Japanese Mino washi paper and its streets, which are in the style of the early Edo period (1603-1868).An urban area known as "Udatsu Townscape" (うだつのあがるまちなみ) is designated as an important traditional building group conservation area by the government on May 13, 1999.
Contents
- Map of Mino Gifu Prefecture Japan
- Kozuchi Town
- Mino Town
- History
- Places of interest historic sites
- Bicycle rental scheme
- Railroad
- References
Map of Mino, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Kozuchi Town
Kozuchi Town(上有知 KŌzuchi-cho) is a town that was once in Mugi gun, Gifu Prefecture. The town was located in the center of the current Mino City, along the Nagara River.It turns out that this town is the birthplace of Chiune Sugihara.
Mino Town
In 1911 (Meiji 44), this town was renamed Mino Town from Kozuchi Town on the old town name in 1911 (Meiji 44). The current Mino City was not a municipal municipal municipal enforcement but a merger / municipal enforcement of Mino Town and the surrounding 6 villages. Here we will talk about Tomochi Kamichi and Mino Town.
Kozuchi Town is famous for the traditional handmade paper of 1,300 years.In Japan, especially, we can feel the changes of each season clearly. For example, in spring, everything is budding and an energetic season.School begins at the best time of cherry blossom in April.The new leaves turn to deep green in May. The rainy season comes in June.The hot and sticky summer starts in July.After the typhoon season, the cool and dry autumn is coming. Green leaves turn to yellow and red.As soon as the leaves fall, the cold winter comes round. It snows a few times, so we can see a wonderful white view.
History
Nagamasa Kanamori who fought in the Eastern Army in Battle of Sekigahara was sealed from "Tokugawa Ieyasu from" Kuchiyama Kaneyama to Iwasa Taniguchi ", and prosperous in washi and prosperous town construction. At that time the town was in the lowland near the Nagaragawa River, and it was frequently damaged by floods, the Keiyo 10 year (1605) town was moved to the present high place
Places of interest / historic sites
Bicycle rental scheme
A scheme designed to attract and encourage tourists, begun in 2004, offers bicycles and electric bicycles for low-price rental. The city has also established a number of cycling paths.