Numata

Numata is a town located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of February 2015, the city had an envisioned populace of 48,840, and a populace density of 110 ladies and men in step with km². Its typical vicinity is 443.46 km², making it the maximum vital town in terms of location within Gunma Prefecture. The neighboring metropolis of Minakami is the biggest municipality in phrases of location within Gunma. Numata developed at some point of the Sengoku length as a castle city surrounding Numata Castle, a stronghold in Kozuke Province contested with the resource of the Uesugi, Takeda, Later Hojo and Sanada clans.

During the Edo length, the location of gift-day Numata modified into the center of the Numata Domain, a feudal area underneath the Tokugawa shogunate. Modern Numata Town became created inner Tone District, Gunma Prefecture on April 1, 1889 with the advent of the municipalities device after the Meiji Restoration. On March 1, 1954, Numata merged with neighboring Tonami, Ikeda, Usune and Kawada villages, and turned into raised to city fame. On February 13 2005 the villages of Shirasawa and Tone were incorporated into Numata.