Joetsu

Joetsu is a metropolis located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. As of one October 2018, the town had an predicted populace of 193,517, in 75,400 households with a populace density of 123.2 people in step with km². The overall area of the town became 973.81 rectangular kilometres. Joetsu borders the Sea of Japan and is famend for its abundance of snow, the yearly cherry-blossom pageant, sake and Koshihikari rice.

The vicinity of present-day Joetsu has been inhabited for thousands of years, and the ruins of numerous Jomon period and Kofun length settlements, tombs and fortifications had been located. The region turned into part of ancient Echigo Province, and the place of the Nara duration provincial capital. During the Sengoku period, it become the center of the holdings of the Uesugi extended family and notably Kasugayama Castle become the headquarters of the famed warlord Uesugi Kenshin. The Uesugi extended family were transferred by way of Toyotomi Hideyoshi to Aizu and the place was later got here beneath the of Takada Domain beneath the Edo duration Tokugawa Shogunate.