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NIIGATA Niigata Prefecture
District 2560


Niigata Prefecture is located on coast of the Japan Sea on the main island. There are tow large rivers running though the prefecture. The lowlands which extend along these rivers from the best rice-producing fertile plain in Japan. The temperature goes up to a high degree in summer, but in winter the wet and cold storms bring a lot of snow to the mountain areas of this district. In former days, the important product of this considerable quantities here. Niigata City, the prefectural capital, has developed as a trading center for rice, but nowadays industrial expansion includes various chemical industries and metal plants. Niigata and Tokyo are now conveniently linked within two hours by the Joetsu Bullet Line.

GUNMA Gunma Prefecture
District 2840


Gunma prefecture is located about 100 km (approximately an hour and a half by car) north of Tokyo. Mt. Akagi, Mt. Haruna and Mt. Myogi are characteristic, providing the scenic backdrop along with plentiful hot-spring the as the Tone River from which Metropolitan Tokyo is supplied with water. Gunma Prefecture is well known as a place of natural beauty. In this setting, the traditional silk industry has prospered since ancient times, while the introduction of modern industries to the prefecture and the Kanetsu Highway have opened the door to its brilliant future.
District 2840 separated from 2560,July 1, last year.


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