Nishio

Nishio is a town positioned in Aichi Prefecture, inside the Chūbu location of Japan. It is a regional industrial and production center and the country's leading producer of powdered green tea. As of May 2015, the city had an predicted population of 166,278 of which some 5,800 are overseas citizens. The overall location become 160.22 rectangular kilometres 61.86 squaremi and the population density is 1,030 men and women in keeping with km.

The Mikawa place has been inhabited in view that prehistoric times, as attested by way of reveals of pottery shards from the Jomon length and the megalithic Kofun tomb in Kira, the oldest in the Mikawa Province. The fertile plains along the Yahagi River had been used for rice-farming in addition to the manufacturing of tea and cotton considering that historical instances. Shell mounds dating to the overdue stone age and discovered in what is today the city middle additionally factor to fish and seafood as vital early nearby produce.

In Hazu, a shrine from the Nara duration is proof of an early cultural connection to the Japanese capital on the time. Nishio is a nearby business center and fishing port, with a mixed economy of light manufacturing and agriculture. It is likewise the biggest producer of powdered inexperienced tea in Japan and one of the main producers of Unagi eels.