Takasaki

Takasaki
高崎市

Core city

City view from Takasaki Kannon

Flag

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Location of Takasaki in Gunma Prefecture

Takasaki

Coordinates: 36°19′18.8″N 139°0′11.8″E / 36.321889°N 139.003278°ECoordinates: 36°19′18.8″N 139°0′11.8″E / 36.321889°N 139.003278°E

Government

• Mayor

Kenji Tomioka (since May 2011)

Area

• Total

459.16 km² (177.28 sq mi)

Population (December 2015)

• Total

371,750

• Density

810/km² (2,100/sq mi)

Time zone

Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Symbols

• Tree

Zelkova serrata, Cyclobalanopsis

• Flower

Sakura

• Bird

Japanese bush-warbler

Phone number

027-321-111

Address

Takamatsu-cho 35-1, Takasaki-shi, Gunma-ken 370-8501

Website

Official website

Takasaki (高崎市, Takasaki-shi^?, [takasakiɕi]) is a city located in southwestern Gunma Prefecture in the northern Kantō region of Japan. As of December 2015, the city had an estimated population of 371,750 and a population density of 810 persons per km². Its total area was 459.16 square kilometres (177.28 sq mi). Takasaki is famous as the hometown of the Daruma doll, theoretically representing the Buddhist sage Bodhidharma and in modern practice a symbol of good luck.

Takasaki is located in the southwestern portion of Gunma Prefecture in the flat northern portion of the Kantō Plain.

During the Edo period, the area of present-day Takasaki was the center of the Takasaki Domain, a feudal domain held by a branch of the Matsudaira clan under the Tokugawa shogunate in Kōzuke Province. The area also prospered from its location on the Nakasendō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto. Post stations located within the borders of modern Takasaki were: Shinmachi-shuku, Kuragano-shuku, and Takasaki-shuku. Following the Meiji Restoration, Takasaki was briefly capital of Gunma Prefecture, before the capital was moved to Maebashi in 1881.

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