Yasu, Shiga

Yasu (Japanese野 洲 市, -shi ) is a city in Shiga Prefecture in Japan.

History

On October 17, 1911, the Mura Yasu (野 洲 村, -mura ) in the same gun for Chō Yasu (野 洲 町, -chō ). On May 20, 1942 was Mikami (三 上 村, -mura ) (筱 原 村, -mura ) in Yasu -gun and incorporated on April 1, 1955 Gio (只 王村, -mura ) and Shinohara in Yasu. The appointment to Shi place on 1 October 2004 with the merger of the Chō Yasu and parts of Chūzu (中 主 町, -chō ) from the Yasu -gun, which was thereupon be dissolved.

Attractions

  • Kinshoku -ji (锦 织 寺, Buddhist Temple )

Traffic

  • Street: National Highway 8, to Kyoto and Niigata
  • National Road 477
  • JR Tōkaidō Main Line ( Biwako Line), to Tokyo or Kobe

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Kitamura Kigin (1624-1705), poet
  • Takanori Nishikawa (born 1970 ), pop singer

Twinning

Adjacent Cities and Towns

  • Omihachiman
  • Konan
  • Ritto
  • Moriyama
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