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located in Koyu District,

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. , the town had an estimated

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of 19242 in 8650 households, and a

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of 160 persons per km². The total area of the town is .

Geography

Takanabe is located in the northern part of the Miyazaki Plain, the Komaru River flows through the center and empties into the

Hyūga Sea The Hyūga Nada () is the part of the Pacific Ocean that lies off the eastern shore of the island of Kyushu, to the south-west of the island of Honshu, off the south coast of Japan. Its name is derived from the former province of Hyūga, which co ...

which forms the eastern border of the town. There are only alluvial plains and diluvial plateaus, and the area is generally flat.

Neighbouring municipalities

Miyazaki Prefecture * Kawaminami * Kijō * Saito * Shintomi

Climate

Takanabe has a

humid subtropical climate A humid subtropical climate is a subtropical -temperate climate type, characterized by long and hot summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents (except Antarctica), generally between ...

(Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Takanabe is 16.4 °C. The average annual rainfall is 2234 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.1 °C, and lowest in January, at around 6.5 °C. Takanabe climate: Average Temperature, weather by month
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Demographics

Per Japanese census data, the population of Takanabe is as shown below

History

The area of Takanabe was part of ancient

Hyūga Province was a province of Japan in the area of southeastern Kyūshū, corresponding to modern Miyazaki Prefecture Hyūga bordered on Ōsumi to the south, Higo to the west, and Bungo to the north. Its abbreviated form name was , although it was als ...

. The area was under the control of the

Akizuki clan 230px, Akizuki Tanehide, 29th chieftain of the Akizuki clan, in 1913 The was a Japanese samurai clan who ruled Takanabe Domain of what is now part of Miyazaki Prefecture in Kyushu Japan under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. In the Meiji pe ...

from the end of the

Sengoku period The was the period in History of Japan, Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident (1454), Ōnin War (1467), or (1493) are generally chosen as th ...

, who ruled

Takanabe Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, in what is now central Miyazaki Prefecture. It was centered around Takanabe Castle and was ruled by the ''tozama daimyō'' Akizuki clan for all of its history. In its ear ...

under the

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 ...

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. The town developed as a ''

jōkamachi The were centres of the domains of the feudal lords in medieval Japan. The ''jōkamachi'' represented the new, concentrated military power of the daimyo in which the formerly decentralized defence resources were concentrated around a single, cent ...

'' around Takanabe Castle. The village of Takanabe within

Koyu District, Miyazaki is a district in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. As of October 1, 2019, the district has an estimated population of 68,269 and the density Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is the ratio of a substance's mass to its volume. Th ...

was established on April 1, 1889, with the creation of the modern municipalities system. It was raised to town status on February 7, 1901.

Government

Takanabe has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a

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town council of 14 members. Takanabe, collectively with the other municipalities of Koyu District contributes three members to the Miyazaki Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the town is part of the Miyazaki 2nd district of the

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of the

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Economy

The main industry of Takanabe is agriculture, mainly livestock, including pig and poultry farming.

Education

Takanabe has two public elementary schools and two public junior high schools operated by the town government, and two public high schools operated by the Miyazaki Prefectural Board of Education.

Transportation

Railways

JR Kyushu The , also referred to as , is one of the seven constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group). It operates intercity rail services within Kyushu, Japan. It formerly operated the Beetle hydrofoil service across the Tsushima Strait be ...

Nippō Main Line The is a railway line in Kyushu, in southern Japan, operated by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu). Also known as the Fukuhoku Nippo Line, The line connects Kokura Station in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, and Kagoshima Station in Kagoshima, Kagoshima, K ...

Highways

Higashikyushu Expressway *

Local attractions

* Mochida Kofun Cluster, National Historic Site *Ruins of Takanabe Castle *Takanabe Daishi temple

Notable people from Takanabe

Sky Brown is a British-Japanese professional skateboarder and surfer who competes for Great Britain. She was the youngest professional skateboarder in the world, and has also won the American TV programme '' Dancing with the Stars: Juniors''. She repre ...

, professional skateboarder * Miki Imai, pop singer and actress *

Kaneshiro Kofuku is a Japanese surname meaning "golden castle". The kanji used to write this surname may also be read Kinjō in ''on'yomi'' or Kanagusuku in the Okinawan language pronunciation. The former reading often indicates Okinawan origin, and the latter ...

, sumo wrestler * Akizuki Satsuo, diplomat

References

External links

*
Takanabe official website

Takanabe English Tourist Information
Towns in Miyazaki Prefecture Populated coastal places in Japan {{Miyazaki-geo-stub