Shimosuwa

Shimosuwa is a metropolis positioned in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. As of one October 2016, the city had an anticipated population of 20,160, and a populace density of 301 folks in step with km². Its general vicinity is 66.87 square kilometres 25.82 squaremi. The area of present-day Shimosuwa become a part of historical Shinano Province, and changed into administered as a part of the territories of Suwa Domain underneath the Tokugawa shogunate.

During the Edo length, Shimosuwa-shuku evolved as the 29th station on the 59-station Nakasendo highway connecting Edo with Kyoto and turned into additionally a post station at the Koshu Kaido. The village of Shimosuwa changed into created with the status quo of the municipalities device on April 1, 1889 and become raised to metropolis repute on June30, 1893. Shimosuwa has public standard faculties and public center schools operated through the metropolis government, and one high faculty operated the Nagano Prefectural Board of Education.