Ogawara

Ogawara is a town located in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 August 2017, the town had an predicted population of 23,640, and a populace density of 952 folks consistent with km² in 9,549 households. The overall area of the city is 24.99 square kilometres. The vicinity of gift-day Ogawara was part of historic Mutsu Province, and changed into part of the holdings of Sendai Domain below the Edo length Tokugawa shogunate.

The modern-day metropolis of Ogawara changed into hooked up on April 1, 1889 with the status quo of the post-Meiji healing municipalities machine. The city annexed the neighboring village of Kanegase on September 30, 1955. However, an attempt to merge Ogawara with the neighboring towns of Shibata and Murata in 2002 turned into rejected through the city meeting in 2004. Ogawara has 3 public primary schools and public center colleges operated by using the metropolis authorities, and two public high schools operated by way of the Miyagi Prefectural Board of Education. The prefecture additionally operates one unique education school.