is a city

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 located in Yamagata Prefecture

Yamagata Prefecture

-Fruit:Yamagata Prefecture is the largest producer of cherries and pears in Japan. A large quantity of other kinds of fruits such as grapes, apples, peaches, melons, persimmons and watermelons are also produced.- Demographics :...

, Japan

Japan

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As of 2008, the city has an estimated population

Population

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 of 34,405 and the population density

Population density

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 of 214 persons per km². The total area is 160.70 km². Nan'yō is the second biggest producer of cherries in Japan.

The city was founded on April 1, 1967, and consists of a number of towns and villages. These include

• Akayu
  Akayu, Nanyo
  is a town in Nanyo City, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Akayu is most famous for Akayu Onsen , a series of ryokan famed for their natural hot-springs which are believed to have medicinal properties....
  
  
• Miyauchi
  Miyauchi, Nanyo
  is a town in Nanyo City, Yamagata, Japan. Miyauchi merged with Akayu and Wago village in 1967 to create Nanyo City. The two kanji characters that form the name 'Miyauchi' literally mean 'shinto shrine' and 'inside'....
  
  
• Okigō
• Ringo
  Ringo, Nanyo
  is a town in the western part of the city of Nan'yō, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, it has an estimated population of 2,005. The town has an elementary school and junior high school, a shrine and several standing stone memorials....
  
  
• Nakagawa
  Nakagawa, Nanyo
  is a town in Nan'yō, Yamagata, Japan. The two kanji characters that form the name 'nakagawa' literally mean 'inside' or 'medium size' and 'river'....
  
  
• Urushiyama
  Urushiyama, Nanyo
  is a small town in Nanyo, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.The town is the site of the Yuzuru no Sato Museum, which has an animation of Urushiyama's famous crane story, and an exhibition related to silk production, a major industry in the area until World War II...
  
  
• Yoshino
  Yoshino, Nanyo
  is a small town in the north of Nan'yō, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. It is made up of two smaller villages, Ogi and Kotaki. As of 2005, the town had a population of 935....
  
  

The English travel-writer Isabella Bird

Isabella Bird

Isabella Lucy Bird was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer, and a natural historian.-Early life:Bird was born in Boroughbridge in 1831 and grew up in Tattenhall, Cheshire...

 visited Akayu in 1878 and wrote about the town in Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. Akayu is famous for its hot springs, cherries and hang gliding. Miyauchi is famous for its chrysanthemum festival and the Kumanotaisha Shrine.

High Schools

• Nan'yō High School

Public junior high schools and elementary schools are operated by the city.

Junior High Schools

• Akayu Junior High School
• Miyauchi Junior High School
• Nakagawa Junior High School
• Okigo Junior High School
• Ringo Junior High School
• Urushiyama Junior High School

Yoshino Junior High School closed in March 2009, and the city plans to merge the remaining six schools into three.

Elementary Schools

• Akayu Elementary School
• Kotaki Elementary School
• Miyauchi Elementary School
• Nakagawa Elementary School
• Ogi Elementary School
• Okigo Elementary School
• Ringo Elementary School
• Urushiyama Elementary School

Train stations

• JR East
  East Japan Railway Company
  is the largest passenger railway company in the world and one of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo....
  
  
  • Yamagata Shinkansen
    Yamagata Shinkansen
    The is a Mini-shinkansen route in Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company . It provides service between Tokyo and Shinjō in Yamagata Prefecture over the tracks of the Tōhoku Shinkansen and the Ōu Main Line....
    
    : Akayu
    Akayu Station
    is a JR East railway station located in Nanyo, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan....
    
    
  • Ōu Main Line
    Ou Main Line
    The is a railway line in Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company . It runs from Fukushima Station in Fukushima, Fukushima through Akita Station in Akita, Akita to Aomori Station in Aomori, Aomori Prefecture...
    
    : Akayu
    Akayu Station
    is a JR East railway station located in Nanyo, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan....
    
    , Nakagawa
    Nakagawa Station (Yamagata)
    is a JR East railway station located in Nakagawa, Nanyō City, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan....
    
     stations
• Yamagata Railway Company
  • Flower Nagai Line
    Flower Nagai Line
    The is a Japanese railway line in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. It runs from Akayu Station in Nanyō to Arato Station in Shirataka.The Flower Nagai Line is the only line operated by the third sector , which took over the former JR East line in 1988....
    
    : Akayu
    Akayu Station
    is a JR East railway station located in Nanyo, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan....
    
    , Nan'yō-Shiyakusho, Miyauchi, Orihata, Ringō
    Ringo Station
    is a railway station located in Ringo, Nanyo City, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.-Adjacent stations:...
    
     stations

Major roads

• Route 13, Route 113, Route 348, Route 399
  Route 399 (Japan)
  National Route 399 is a national highway of Japan connecting Iwaki, Fukushima and Nan'yō, Yamagata in Japan, with a total length of 179.4 km ....
  
  

Tourism

• Inarimori Burial Mound, Akayu
• Akayu onsen
  Onsen
  An is a term for hot springs in the Japanese language, though the term is often used to describe the bathing facilities and inns around the hot springs. As a volcanically active country, Japan has thousands of onsen scattered along its length and breadth...
  
  , Akayu
• Nan'yō Skypark, Akayu
• Toyotaro Yuki Memorial Museum, Akayu
• Kumano Shrine
  Kumanotaisha Shrine (Yamagata)
  The is a historic shinto shrine in Miyauchi, Nanyo, Yamagata, Japan.It dates from the 9th century, and is one of only three large Kumano shrines in Japan....
  
  , Miyauchi
• Hygeia Park onsen complex, Miyauchi
• The 33 Images of Buddha, Mt Iwabu, Nakagawa
• Yuzuru No Sato Museum, Urushiyama
• Chinzo Temple, Urushiyama
• Kuguri waterfall, Kotaki

Events

• Eboshiyama park cherry blossom festival, Akayu, late April to early May
• Sosho park rose festival, Miyauchi, June
• Kumanotaisha
  Kumanotaisha Shrine (Yamagata)
  The is a historic shinto shrine in Miyauchi, Nanyo, Yamagata, Japan.It dates from the 9th century, and is one of only three large Kumano shrines in Japan....
  
  festival, Miyauchi, 24–25 July
• Grape picking, sightseeing vineyard, Akayu, August-October
• Nan'yō wine festival, Hygeia park, Miyauchi, August
• Akayu onsen furosato festival, Akayu, second weekend of September
• Chrysanthemum doll festival, Miyauchi, mid-October to mid-November

External links

• Official website in Japanese
• Official website in English