Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture, Kantō Region, Japan

🇯🇵 Tatebayashi is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. It is famous for Azalea Hill Park and Bunbuku Chagama of Morin-ji temple.

Geography Tatebayashi is located in the extreme south-eastern portion of Gunma Prefecture in the Kantō Plains, bordered by Tochigi Prefecture to the north. The Tone River and Watarase Rivers sandwich the city to the north and south.

Surrounding municipalities Gunma Prefecture • Ōra • Chiyoda • Meiwa • Itakura; Tochigi Prefecture • Ashikaga • Sano.

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

History Tatebayashi is located within traditional Kōzuke Province and has been settled since prehistoric times and there is a continuous record of habitation from the Japanese Paleolithic period 20,000 years ago. During the Edo period, the area of present-day Tatebayashi was a castle town and administrative centre of Tatebayashi Domain, a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate.

Tatebayashi Town was created within Ōra District, Gunma Prefecture on April 1, 1889 with the creation of the modern 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.

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

Education Tatebayashi has 11 public elementary schools and five public middle schools operated by the city government, and two public high schools operated by the Gunma Prefectural Board of Education. There is also one private high school.

Education: University ◦ Kanto Junior College

Transport: Rail • Tōbu Railway Isesaki Line

◦ Morinjimae – Tatebayashi – Tatara • Tōbu Railway Sano Line

◦ Tatebayashi – Watarase • Tōbu Railway Koizumi Line

◦ Tatebayashi – Narushima

Transport: Road • Tōhoku Expressway – Tatebayashi Interchange • National Route 122 • National Route 354

Local attractions • Site of Tatebayashi Castle • Gunma Museum of Art • Tsutsujigaoka Park, a National Place of Scenic Beauty • Jō-numa marsh • Tatara-numa marsh • Moriniji Temple.