Iiyama

Iiyama is a metropolis located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. As of one February 2019, the city had an envisioned populace of 20,118 in 7372 families and a populace density of 104 people in step with km². The overall place of the town is 202.43 rectangular kilometres. It markets itself as Japan's Hometown" and is referred to as the Little Kyoto of Snow Country. The vicinity of present-day Iiyama turned into a part of historic Shinano Province.

The area became a part of the holdings of Iiyama Domain at some point of the Edo length, and the center of the town become the jokamachi surrounding Iiyama Castle, held by using a cadet branch of the Honda extended family. The cutting-edge metropolis of Iiyama was mounted inside Shimominochi District, Nagano with the establishment of the municipalities system on April 1, 1889. It become raised to metropolis status on August 1, 1954 by way of the merger of the city of Iiyama with neighboring villages of Akitsu, Tokiwa, Yanagihara, Tozama, Kijima and Zuiho. The villages of Ota and Okayama have been also annexed in 1955.