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Nakano City

No clear trace of garden water channels.

Takanashi Manor Site, moated

01 ／ Clay dolls

Front and back halves joined, then fired.Clay hina dolls of two lineages, Fushimi and Mikawa.

Nakano's clay hina dolls are made by pressing clay into front and back moulds, joining the two halves, firing them in a kiln, coating them with gofun and painting them in mud pigments. The city understands them as two lineages, Fushimi and Mikawa, and the Nakano doll was designated a city Intangible Cultural Property in 2005.

Front and back moulds
Fushimi and Mikawa lineages
City Intangible Cultural Property, 2005

02 ／ Bronze halberds and bells

In the pit, the halberds stood on edgeand the bells stood upright on their flanges.

At the Yanagisawa site, pre-construction surveys for an embankment in 2006-08 found a pit of buried bronzes from the late middle Yayoi period. The national description records at least eight doka halberd blades and five dotaku bells buried together; the finds were designated Important Cultural Properties in 2014.

8 halberds, 5 bells
Late middle Yayoi period
Important Cultural Property, 2014

03 ／ Nakano Prefectural Office site

The town where the prefectural office stoodwas, for a time, the prefecture's name.

After a shogunate magistrate's office was placed in Nakano Village, Takai District, in 1616, Nakano Prefecture's office was set there in September 1870. In June 1871 the prefecture was renamed Nagano, and the office moved to Zenkoji-machi. A town hall was built on the site in 1936; it is now the Nakano Jin'ya and Prefectural Office Memorial Hall.

Prefectural Historic Site, 1964
Nakano Prefecture set up, Sept. 1870
Renamed Nagano, June 1871

Nakano City from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Now1974–78

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot September–October 2024)Shot 1974–78

Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））

Open in GSI Maps (now)Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

Between them, the Chikuma River, with Mt. Kosha and Mt. Madarao.

about 40,000 people

Nakano merged with Toyoda Village in April 2005. It measures about 11 km east to west and about 16 km north to south, with an area of 112.18 km². The Chikuma River runs through its middle, with Mt. Kosha to the northeast and Mt. Madarao to the northwest. Farming is strong, and apples and grapes are known crops. The gateway is Shinshunakano Station on the Nagano Electric Railway.

People living here: 42,338people
Area: 112.18km²
Households: 15,799households
Rent (average for rentals): 42,182yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 29 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-04-01 に新設合併（豊田村）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —12 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities.

Nakano City in Japan36.742°N 138.369°E

Territory of Nakano City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.Lakes: National Land Numerical Information (Lake Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari. Prepared with the approval of the Director-General of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, using its Digital Map 25000 (Spatial Data Framework) and Digital Map 25000 (Place Names and Public Facilities). (承認番号平27情使、第585号)

North to south

16.1km

Iiyama City, Iizuna Town, Yamanouchi Town, Obuse Town, Takayama Village, Kijimadaira Village, Nagano City

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Nakano City isthis kind of town.

01Nakano's Takanashi manor site is a square-plan manor ruin of about 130 m by 100 m, ringed on all four sides by earthen ramparts and a moat, and because no clear remains of water supply or drainage were found, its excavated garden is presumed to have been a dry-landscape garden
02Nakano's clay dolls come in two lineages, Fushimi and Mikawa, and the finds from the Yanagisawa site, including bronze halberds and bells buried upright, are Important Cultural Properties
03Nakano Prefecture's office stood on the site of the Nakano magistrate's office in 1870, and Jusangake cliff beside the Yomase River is a National Natural Monument as a breeding ground of the common kestrel

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

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