Annaka

Annaka is a metropolis located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of February 2015, the town had an expected population of 58,675, and a populace density of 212 individuals in keeping with km². Its general location is 276.31 km². During the Edo length, the vicinity of gift-day Annaka was the middle of the Annaka Domain, a feudal area held by means of the Itakura extended family under the Tokugawa shogunate in Kozuke Province. The region additionally prospered from its region at the Nakasendo dual carriageway connecting Edo with Kyoto.

Post stations located in the borders of modern-day Annaka had been: Itahana-shuku, Annaka-shuku, Matsuida-shuku and Sakamoto-shuku. Annaka Town was created inside Usui District, Gunma Prefecture on April 1, 1889 with the advent of the municipalities gadget after the Meiji Restoration. On March 1, 1955, Annaka merged with neighboring Haraichi, Isobe, and Itahana cities, and Higashiyokono, Iwanoya, Akima, and Gokan villages. It became raised to city fame on November 1, 1958. On March 18, 2006, the town of Matsuida, merged with Annaka. Usui District was dissolved because of this merger.