Kagawa Prefecture

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Kagawa Prefecture

is a prefecture

Prefectures of Japan

The prefectures of Japan are the country's 47 sub-national jurisdictions: one "metropolis" , Tokyo; one "Circuit #Japan" , Hokkaido; two urban prefectures , Osaka Prefecture and Kyoto Prefecture; and 43 other prefectures ....
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located on Shikoku

Shikoku

is the smallest and least populous of the four main islands of Japan, located south of Honshu and east of Kyushu island. Its ancient names include Iyo-no-futana-shima , Iyo-shima , and Futana-shima ....
island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets....
. The capital is Takamatsu.

wa was formerly known as Sanuki Province

Sanuki Province

was an old provinces of Japan of Japan on the island of Shikoku, with the same boundaries as modern Kagawa Prefecture. It faced the Inland Sea and bordered on Awa province and Iyo provinces....
.

For the brief period between August 1876 and December 1888, Kagawa was made a part of Ehime Prefecture

Ehime Prefecture

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is a prefecture

Prefectures of Japan

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Shikoku

Island

An island or isle is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets....
. The capital is Takamatsu.

History

Kagawa was formerly known as Sanuki Province

Sanuki Province

Ehime Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan in northwestern Shikoku, Japan. The capital is Matsuyama, Ehime....
.

Battle of Yashima

Located in Kagawa's capital city, Takamatsu, the mountain of Yashima was the battlefield for one of the best-known battles between the Heike and the Genji clans. The name Yashima means literally 'roof island'. Yashima, so called because of its shape like the roof of a traditional Japanese farm house, is a mesa headland jutting out into the Seto Inland Sea. But at the time when the Genpei War was fought, it was, as is implied by the name, an island separated from the mainland by the Aibikigawa River.The military forces of the Heikes, defeated at Ichinotani, retreated to Yashima with Emperor Antoku and set up his temporary court and their headquarters at Dannoura Inlet of Yashima. Yashima retains many names related to the historic battle. According to the stories, the main battlefield was the whole Dannoura area, where now stands Yashima-higashi Primary School. Visitors now find the old court site of Emperor Antoku, Tombs of Sato Tsugunobu and Kikuomaru, Rock on which Nasuno Yoichi prayed for success of his feat, Rock on which the bestriding Yoichi shot his arrow at the fan. The place names of Genjigamine Peak, Funakakushi, Chinoike Pond and others are reminiscent of the past.

Geography

Kagawa comprises the northeast corner of Shikoku, bordering Ehime Prefecture

Ehime Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan in northwestern Shikoku, Japan. The capital is Matsuyama, Ehime....
on the west and Tokushima Prefecture

Tokushima Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located on Shikoku island. The Capital is the city of Tokushima, Tokushima....
on the south, with a coastline on the Seto Inland Sea facing Okayama Prefecture

Okayama Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chugoku region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Okayama....
and the Kansai

Kansai

The or the lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshu. The region includes the prefectures of Nara Prefecture, Wakayama Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture, Osaka Prefecture, Hyogo Prefecture, and Shiga Prefecture....
. The Sanuki Mountains

Sanuki Mountains

The are a mountain range running along the southern border of Kagawa Prefecture and the northern border of Tokushima Prefecture prefectures on the island of Shikoku, Japan....
run along the southern border.

Kagawa is currently the smallest prefecture, by area, in Japan. Osaka Prefecture

Osaka Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan located in the Kinki region on Honshu, the main island of Japan. The capital is the city of Osaka, Osaka. It is the center of Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto area....
held that title until Kansai International Airport

Kansai International Airport

is an international airport located on an artificial island in the middle of Osaka Bay, off the shore of the cities of Sennan, Osaka and Izumisano, Osaka and the town of Tajiri, Osaka in Osaka Prefecture, Japan....
was reclaimed from the ocean in the early 1990s, pushing its land area slightly above Kagawa's. Kagawa is a relatively narrow prefecture located between the mountains of Shikoku and the sea.

Cities

Eight cities are located in Kagawa Prefecture:

Higashikagawa
Higashikagawa, Kagawa

is a cities of Japan located in Kagawa prefecture, Japan.As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 36,988 and a population density of 241.45 persons per square kilometer....
Kan'onji
Kan'onji, Kagawa

is a cities of Japan located in Kagawa prefecture, Japan.As of 2005, the city has an estimated population of 66,443 and the population density of 596.16 persons per km?....
Marugame
Marugame, Kagawa

is a cities of Japan located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan....

Mitoyo

Mitoyo, Kagawa

is a cities of Japan located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.As of 2005, the city has an estimated population of 71,178 and a population density of 320 persons per km?....

Sakaide

Sakaide, Kagawa

is a cities of Japan located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.As of 2008, the city has an estimated population of 56,365 and the population density of 610 persons per km?....

Sanuki

Sanuki, Kagawa

is a cities of Japan located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 57,382 and the population density of 361.32 persons per km?....

Takamatsu

Takamatsu, Kagawa

is located in central Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku in Japan, and is the seat of the prefectural government. It is designated a core city by the Japanese Government....
(capital)

Zentsuji

Zentsuji, Kagawa

is a cities of Japan located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 36,010 and the population density of 902.96 persons per square kilometer....

Towns

Towns and villages in each district

Districts of Japan

The was most recently used as an administrative unit in Japan between 1878 and 1921 and is roughly equivalent to the county of the United States, ranking at the level below prefecture and above Cities of Japan, Towns of Japan or Villages of Japan....
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Ayauta District
Ayauta District, Kagawa

Ayauta is a districts of Japan located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.As of the Takamatsu, Kagawa merger but using 2000 population data, the district has an estimated population of 41,598 and a population density of 353 persons per km?....

Ayagawa

Ayagawa, Kagawa

is a towns of Japan located in Ayauta District, Kagawa, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.The town was founded on March 21, 2006 from the merger of the towns of Ayakami, Kagawa and Ryonan, Kagawa....

Utazu

Utazu, Kagawa

is a towns of Japan located in Ayauta District, Kagawa, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 16,821 and a population density of 2,084.39 persons per square kilometer....

Kagawa District
Kagawa District, Kagawa

Kagawa is a districts of Japan located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.As of the January 10, 2006 Takamatsu merger , the district consists of the single town of Naoshima, Kagawa and has an estimated population of 3,583 and a population density of 251.97 persons per square kilometer....

Naoshima

Naoshima, Kagawa

is an island towns of Japan administratively part of Kagawa District, Kagawa, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan located in the Inland Sea. As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 3,583 and a population density of 251.97 persons per square kilometer....

Kita District
Kita District, Kagawa

Kita is a districts of Japan located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.As of the January 10, 2006 Takamatsu merger, the district consists of the town of Miki, Kagawa with an estimated population of 29,015 and a population density of 382.88 persons per square kilometer....

Miki

Miki, Kagawa

is a towns of Japan located in Kita District, Kagawa, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 29,015 and a population density of 382.88 persons per square kilometer....

Nakatado District
Nakatado District, Kagawa

Japan > Shikoku Region > Kagawa Prefecture > Nakatado District is a districts of Japan located in Kagawa Prefecture. Due to the district government enforcement in 1899, the district was formed when the Naka District, Kagawa and Tado District, Kagawa Districts merged....

Kotohira

Kotohira, Kagawa

is a towns of Japan located in Nakatado District, Kagawa, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. The town is best known as the site of Shikoku's largest shrine complex, the Kotohira Shrine ....

Manno

Manno, Kagawa

is a towns of Japan located in Nakatado District, Kagawa, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 12,770 and a population density of 239.9 persons per...

Tadotsu

Tadotsu, Kagawa

is a towns of Japan located in Nakatado District, Kagawa, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 23,683 and a population density of 973.01 persons per square kilometer....

Shozu District
Shozu District, Kagawa

is a districts of Japan located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.As of 2003, the district has an estimated population of 34,714 and a population density of 204.20 persons per square kilometer....

Shodoshima

Shodoshima, Kagawa

is a towns of Japan located in Shozu District, Kagawa, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan on Shodoshima, an island in the Inland Sea. The town was formed on March 21, 2006 from the merger of the towns of Ikeda, Kagawa and Uchinomi, Kagawa....

Tonosho

Tonosho, Kagawa

is a towns of Japan in Shozu District, Kagawa, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is located on the island of Shodoshima in the Inland Sea. Small islands on the Inland Sea, including Teshima, belong to its administrative area....

Mergers

Economy

Demographics

Culture

Sports

The sports teams listed below are based in Kagawa.

Baseball

Kagawa Olive Guyners
Kagawa Olive Guyners

The is a baseball team in the Shikoku Island League of Japan. Established in 2005, the Guyners play at Olive Stadium in the Kagawa Prefectural Baseball Complex in Takamatsu, Kagawa, Kagawa Prefecture....

Basketball

Takamatsu Five Arrows (Takamatsu
Takamatsu, Kagawa

is located in central Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku in Japan, and is the seat of the prefectural government. It is designated a core city by the Japanese Government....
)

Football (Soccer)

Kamatamare Sanuki
Kamatamare Sanuki

Kamatamare Sanuki are a football club based in Takamatsu, the capital city of Kagawa Prefecture of Japan. They play in the Sikoku League, one of the 9 regional leagues that are the 4th tier of the Japanese football hierarchy after J....
(Takamatsu
Takamatsu, Kagawa

is located in central Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku in Japan, and is the seat of the prefectural government. It is designated a core city by the Japanese Government....
)

Volleyball

Eighty8 queen

Tourism

Kotohira Shrine
Kotohira Shrine

Kotohira-gu is a Shinto shrine in the town of Kotohira, Kagawa in Nakatado District, Kagawa of Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is often familiarly referred to as Konpira-san and supposed to have been founded during the first century....
Shodo Island
Takamatsu Castle
Takamatsu castle

Takamatsu Castle may refer to:*Takamatsu Castle situated in Bitchu province, , which was besieged in 1582.*Takamatsu Castle in Sanuki province, in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, on Shikoku. This castle is also called Tamamo Castle....
Marugame Castle
Marugame Castle

, also known as Kameyama Castle and Horai Castle, is a hirayamashiro located in Marugame, Kagawa, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan....
Yashima
Yashima

Yashima can have several meanings:...
, the island on which the Battle of Yashima
Battle of Yashima

The naval Battle of Yashima took place on 22 March 1185. Following a long string of defeats, the Taira clan retreated to Yashima, today's Takamatsu, Kagawa, just off the coast of Shikoku....
was fought.
Ritsurin Park
Ritsurin Park

is one of the most famous and most beautiful historical parks in Japan. The park is situated in the city of Takamatsu and is considered one of its main attractions....
Tamamo Park
Megijima (Onigashima
Onigashima

Onigashima , literally "Island of oni ", is a mythical ogre-infested island that features prominently in the traditional Japanese folklore tale of Momotaro, also known as the "Peach Boy"....
) & Ogijima
Goshikidai

Based on its ancient name, Sanuki

Sanuki Province

Udon

is a type of thick wheat-flour noodle popular in Japanese cuisine.Udon is usually served hot as noodle soup in a mildly flavoured broth, in its simplest form as kake udon, served in kakejiru made of dashi, soy sauce , and mirin....
(wheat noodles). Recent years has seen a great interest in Sanuki Udon across Japan, and many Japanese now take day trips to taste the many Sanuki Udon restaurants in Kagawa.

Prefectural symbols

Miscellaneous topics

The novel Battle Royale
Battle Royale

is a 1999 Japanese novel written by Koushun Takami.The novel has been adapted into a duology of films and two comic book series, and translated into English, French, German and Hungarian....
by Koushun Takami

Koushun Takami

is best-known as the author of the novel Battle Royale, originally published in Japanese_language, and later translated into English language by Yuji Oniki and published by Viz Media....
was set in the fictional town of Shiroiwa ('Castle Rock') in the Kagawa Prefecture. Okishima, the fictional island on which much of the novel takes place is placed in the Seto Inland Sea. The manga also places Shiroiwa in the Kagawa Prefecture, while the film moves Shiroiwa to the Kanagawa Prefecture

Kanagawa Prefecture

is a prefectures of Japan located in the southern Kanto region of Honshu, Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area....
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