Tatebayashi

Tatebayashi
館林市

City

Tatebayashi city hall

Flag

Seal

Location of Tatebayashi in Gunma Prefecture

Tatebayashi

Coordinates: 36°14′41.4″N 139°32′31.6″E / 36.244833°N 139.542111°ECoordinates: 36°14′41.4″N 139°32′31.6″E / 36.244833°N 139.542111°E

Government

• Mayor

Kazuo Yasuraoka (since April 2007)

Area

• Total

60.97 km² (23.54 sq mi)

Population (February 2015)

• Total

76,560

• Density

1,260/km² (3,300/sq mi)

Time zone

Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

- Tree

Pinus thunbergii

- Flower

Rhododendron obtusum

- Bird

Anas poecilorhyncha

Phone number

0276-72-4111

Address

1-1 Shiromachi, Tatebayashi-shi, Gunma-ken 374-8501

Website

Official website

Tatebayashi (館林市, Tatebayashi-shi) is a city located in southeastern Gunma Prefecture in the northern Kantō region of Japan. As of February 2015, the city had an estimated population of 75,560 and a population density of 1260 persons per km². Its total area was 60.97 km². Tatebayashi is famous for Azalea Hill Park and Bunbuku Chagama of Morinji Temple.

Tatebayashi is located in the extreme southeastern portion of Gunma Prefecture in the Kantō Plains, bordered by to the north. The Tone River and Watarase Rivers pass through the city.

During the Edo period, the area of present-day Tatebayashi was a castle town and administrative center of Tatebayashi Domain, a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate in Kōzuke Province.

Tatebayashi Town was created within Ōra District, Gunma Prefecture on April 1, 1889 with the creation of the municipalities system after the Meiji Restoration. On April 1, 1954 the town of Tatebayashi and the villages of Satoya, Ōshima, Akabane, Rokugō, Minoya, Tatara, and Watarase merged to form the city Tatebayashi.

There is a small community of around 200 Rohingya from Myanmar living in Tatebayashi.

Tatebayashi is a regional commercial center and transportation hub. Food processing dominates the manufacturing sector of the local economy.

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