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
- Train: JR Uetsu Main Line
- 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