was a

town A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

located in Sakata District,

Shiga Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan in the Kansai region of Honshu. Shiga Prefecture has a population of 1,398,972 as of 1 February 2025 and has a geographic area of . Shiga Prefecture borders Fukui Prefecture to the north, Gifu Prefecture to th ...

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. There was

Kashiwabara-juku Kashiwabara-juku today was the sixtieth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. It was located in the present-day city of Maibara, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. History Kashiwabara-juku ...

Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

Population

As of 2003, the town had an estimated

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of 13,393 and a

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of 252.17 persons per km². The total area was 53.11 km².

History

On February 14, 2005, Santō, along with the towns of

Maihara was a town located in Sakata District, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 12,212 and a density of 285.46 persons per km2. The total area was 42.78 km2. On February 14, 2005, Maihara, along with th ...

and Ibuki (all from Sakata District), was merged to create the city of Maibara.

References

Dissolved municipalities of Shiga Prefecture Maibara, Shiga {{Shiga-geo-stub