Nirasaki, Yamanashi Prefecture, Chūbu Region, Japan

🇯🇵 Nirasaki is a city in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.

Geography Nirasaki is located in the north-western end of the Kofu Basin in Yamanashi Prefecture, bordered to the east by the Minami Alps National Park and the west by the Minami Alps Koma Prefectural Natural Park.

Surrounding municipalities Yamanashi Prefecture • Hokuto • Minami-Alps • Kai.

History The area around present-day Nirasaki was the ancestral homeland of the Takeda clan, which dominated Kai Province in the Sengoku period. During the Edo period, the area was tenryō territory under the direct administration of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the village of Niirasaki was a post town on the Kōshū Kaidō highway. During the early Meiji period, the area was organized into 14 villages under Kitakoma District, Yamanashi. Nirasaki was elevated to town status on September 20, 1892. Modern Nirasaki City was founded by merger of Nirasaki with ten surrounding villages on October 10, 1954.

Government Nirasaki has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 18 members.

Economy The economy of Nirasaki is primarily agricultural.

Education Nirasaki has five public elementary schools and two public middle schools operated by the city government and two public high schools operated by the Yamanashi Prefectural Board of Education.

Transport: Rail • Central Japan Railway Company - Chūō Main Line; ◦ Nirasaki - Shimpu - Anayama

Transport: Road • Chūō Expressway • National Route 20 • National Route 52 • National Route 141.