Nakatsugawa

Nakatsugawa is a town located in Gifu, Japan. As of 31 December 2018, the metropolis had an envisioned population of 78,930, and a population density of 100 twenty individuals in step with km2 in 30,788 households. The fashionable location of the town changed into 676.45 rectangular kilometres. The location round Nakatsugawa changed into a part of traditional Mino Province.

During the Edo duration, plenty of the area changed into under the control of Owari Domain, Naegi Domain and Iwamura Domain, or have become tenryo beneath direction manage of the Tokugawa shogunate. Nakatsugawa-juku prospered as one of the sixty nine Stations of the Nakasendo alongside the Nakasendo highway connecting Edo with Kyoto. In the submit-Meiji restoration cadastral reforms, Ena District in Gifu prefecture changed into created, and Nakatsugawa have become proclaimed a town in keeping with the April 1, 1897 established order of the modern municipalities tool.

Nakatsugawa merged with the metropolis of Naegi in 1951 and turned into prolonged to metropolis repute on April 1, 1952. Nakatsugawa annexed the village of Nakamoto in 1954, Ochiai in 1956, and Agi in 1957. On February 13, 2005, the cities of Tsukechi, Fukuoka and Sakashita and the villages of Hirukawa, Kashimo and Kawaue all from the former Ena District, and the village of Yamaguchi from Kiso District, Nagano Prefecture had been merged into Nakatsugawa.