Tainai, Niigata

Tainai (Japanese胎 内 市, - shi) is a city in the interior of the Niigata prefecture on Honshu, the main island of Japan.

Geography

Tainai located on the eponymous river south of Murakami and north of Shibata on the Japan Sea.

History

The city Tainai was founded on 1 September 2005 from the former municipalities of Nakajo and Kurokawa.

Traffic

  • Nihonkai Tohoku highway
  • National Road 7
  • National roads 113, 290, 345

Personalities

  • Isao Homma ( in what was then Nakajo ), football player

Adjacent Cities and Towns

  • Niigata Prefecture Shibata
  • Murakami
  • Sekikawa
  • Oguni
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