Ibigawa

Ibigawa is a metropolis positioned in Ibi District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. As of one December 2018, the town had an anticipated population of 21,319 in 8,015 families and a population density of 27 men and women in keeping with km2, in 8,032 families. The total region of the city changed into 803.44 square kilometres. The area round Ibigawa become a part of conventional Mino Province.

During the Edo duration, it initially part of a 30,000 koku domain controlled by way of the Nishio clan, but from 1623 turned into divided among territory controlled via Owari Domain and tenryo holdings at once managed by way of the Tokugawa shogunate. During the post-Meiji recovery cadastral reforms, the place became organised into Ibi District, Gifu Prefecture. The city of Ibigawa changed into formed on July 1, 1889 with the status quo of the modern-day municipalities system. On January 31, 2005 the previous villages of Fujihashi, Kasuga, Kuze, Sakauchi, and Tanigumi merged with Ibigawa, ensuing in a almost 20-fold growth in place.