Shinano (Nagano)
Shinano (Japanese信 浓 町, machi ) is a town in Shinano in Nagano Prefecture.
Geography
Within the city limits to the east is the Lake Nojiri. In the West, the 2,053 m high stratovolcano Kurohime (黒 姫 山, -yama ) is the Kurohime plateau (黒 姫 高原, Kurohime - Kōgen ). The lake and the plateau belong together with the Myoko Plateau of Mount Myoko for Jōshin'etsu - Kōgen National Park.
History
The city's name comes from the province of Shinano, however, whose main town was not located within the present Shinano.
Shinano was (柏 原 村, -mura ) (富士 里 村, -mura ) founded and Fuji Sato on April 1, 1955 as the village of Shinano (信 浓 村, -mura ) as a merger of the villages Kashiwabara. On September 30, 1956, the villages of Shinano, Shinanojiri closed (信 浓 尻 村, -mura ) and Furuma (古 间 村, -mura ) to the city Shinano together.
Traffic
Shinano has connection to the Jōshin'etsu - highway to Fujioka and Joshin and to the prefecture road 18 to Takasaki and Joshin.
Shinano ist mit den Bahnhöfen Kurohime und Furuma an die JR East Shin’etsu-Hauptlinie zum Bahnhof Takasaki und Bahnhof Niigata.
Attractions
The Kurohime - tale house (黒 姫 童话 馆, Kurohime dōwakan ) collects tales from around the world.
Education
In Shinano are the primary schools Furumi (古 海 小学校), Nojiri Lake (野 尻 湖 小学校), Kashiwabara (柏 原 小学校) Furuma (古 间 小学校) and Fuji Sato (富士 里 小学校), as well as the middle school Shinano (信 浓 中 学校). 2011 are to be merged into a single integrated schools all elementary and middle school.
Twinning
Partners town of Shinano is since 17 May 1995, the 160,000 inhabitants is the Nagareyama in Chiba Prefecture.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828), Japanese haiku poet
Adjacent Cities and Towns
- Nagano Prefecture Nagano
- Iiyama
- Iizuna
- Myoko