Tsu

Tsu is the capital city of Mie Prefecture, Japan. As of August 2015, the town had an expected populace of 279,304 and a population density of 393 folks according to km2. The overall vicinity become 711.11 square kilometres. Tsu in the beginning advanced as a port metropolis referred to as Anotsu in the Nara and Heian intervals. The port changed into destroyed by means of a tsunami inside the 1498 Meio Nankaido earthquake.

The metropolis was rebuilt as a fort city and a publish station via the Todo clan, daimyo of Tsu Domain below the Tokugawa shogunate. During the Edo duration, it became a popular stopping point for vacationers to Ise shrine, approximately 40 km to the southeast. Following the Meiji Restoration, it have become the capital of Mie Prefecture in 1871. With the establishment of municipalities on April 1, 1889, Tsu turned into one of the unique 31 towns to be proclaimed.

During World War II, Allied air raids on July 24 and July 28, 1945, destroyed maximum of the metropolis and killed 1,239 people. On January 1, 2006, the neighboring town of Hisai, the towns of Ano, Geino and Kawage, and the village of Misato all in Age District, the towns of Hakusan, Ichishi and Karasu, and the village of Misugi all in Ichishi District were merged into Tsu. As a result of the merger, the city became the second biggest in Mie through populace in the back of Yokkaichi, and the biggest in Mie by place ahead of Matsusaka.