Hida

Hida City Hall
Hida-shi ; 飛騨市
Geographical location in Japan
Region :	Chūbu
Prefecture :	Gifu
Coordinates :	36 ° 14 ' N , 137 ° 11' E Coordinates: 36 ° 14 '17 " N , 137 ° 11' 10" E
Basic data
Surface:	792.31 km²
Residents :	23,030 ; (June 1, 2019)
Population density :	29 inhabitants per km²
Community key :	21217-2
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Tree :	Notched beech
Flower :	Lysichiton camtschatcense
town hall
Address :	Hida City Hall ; 2 - 22 , Honmachi, Furukawa-chō; Hida -shi ; Gifu 509-4292
Website URL:	http://www.city.hida.gifu.jp
Location of Hidas in Gifu Prefecture

Hida ( Japanese 飛驒市 , - shi ) is a city in the Japanese prefecture of Gifu on Honshū . The local specialties include the Kamioka Neutrino Observatory (with the Kamiokande and Super Kamiokande experiments ) in the former Mozumi mine and the KAGRA gravitational wave detector in the Kamioka mine.

history

Hida was founded in 2004 as an amalgamation of the communities Furukawa ( 古川町 , -chō ), Kamioka ( 神岡町 , -chō ) and the villages of Kawai ( 河合村 , -mura ) and Miyagawa ( 宮川村 , -mura ) of Yoshiki County.

traffic

Train:
- JR Takayama Main Line
Street:
- National roads 41,360,471,472

Town twinning

Austria Leutasch , since 1998

Spelling of the name

Since the second kanji is only present in its Shinjitai form in the Japanese character sets, in which the element 單 has been replaced by 単 , Hida is commonly written as 飛騨市 .

Neighboring cities and communities

Gifu Prefecture
- Takayama
- Shirakawa
Toyama prefecture
- Toyama
- Nanto

Individual evidence

↑ Originally with the Mura Kawai.
^ Austrian-Japanese relations. Japanese Embassy Austria, archived from the original on December 19, 2012 ; accessed on August 17, 2016 .

Web links

Commons : Hida - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

[1] Originally with the Mura Kawai.

[2] Austrian-Japanese relations. Japanese Embassy Austria, archived from the original on December 19, 2012 ; accessed on August 17, 2016 .