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    Yatsushiro (八代市, Yatsushiro-shi) is a city located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. Located at the geographic center of Kyushu, Yatsushiro City is situated...
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    Yatsushiro-gū (八代宮, Yatsushiro-gū) is a Shinto shrine located in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. Its main festival is held annually on August...
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    Yatsushiro Station (八代駅, Yatsushiro-eki) is a railway station located in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Japan, operated by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) and...
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    The Yatsushiro Sea (八代海, Yatsushiro-kai), which is also called the Shiranui Sea (不知火海, Shiranui-kai), is a shallow semi-enclosed inland sea separating...
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    Yatsushiro (八代町, Yatsushiro-chō) was a town located in Higashiyatsushiro District, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated...
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    the opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen on March 13, the section between Yatsushiro and Sendai was transferred to the third-sector Hisatsu Orange Railway...
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    Yatsushiro (八代郡, Yatsushiro-gun) is a district located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. As of the Yatsushiro merger (but with 2003 population estimates)...
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    island at the mouth of the Kuma River at the northern end of the Yatsushiro Sea in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. An episode in the Nihon Shoki explains...
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    Yatsushiro Castle (八代城, Yatsushiro-jō) is the remains of a castle structure in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. In 1619, Mugishima Castle collapsed...
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  • Shunji Yatsushiro (八代 俊二, Yatsushiro Shunji, born August 26, 1960) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Japan. He began his Grand Prix career...
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    Kōda ware (redirect from Yatsushiro ware)
    Japanese pottery traditionally from Yatsushiro, Kumamoto prefecture. It is also known as Yatsushiro ware (八代焼, Yatsushiro-yaki). Most of the decorative style...
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  • villages of Sakamoto and Tōyō (all from Yatsushiro District), was merged into the expanded city of Yatsushiro and no longer exists as an independent municipality...
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    the original rail connection from Yatsushiro to Kagoshima (and via the Kitto Line, Miyazaki) until the Yatsushiro – Kagoshima coastal route via Sendai...
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    Shin-Yatsushiro Station (新八代駅, Shin-Yatsushiro-eki) is a railway station in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, operated by Kyushu Railway Company...
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  • Senchō (千丁町, Senchō-machi) was a town located in Yatsushiro District, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 6...
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  • Miyahara (宮原町, Miyahara-machi) was a town located in Yatsushiro District, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003 the town had an estimated population of...
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    32°20'N, 130°E, separated from the rest of Kumamoto Prefecture by the Yatsushiro Sea. While lacking high mountains with only four peaks surpassing 1,500...
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    largest city of Kumamoto Prefecture, with other major cities including Yatsushiro, Amakusa, and Tamana. Kumamoto Prefecture is located in the center of...
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  • villages of Izumi, Sakamoto and Tōyō (all from Yatsushiro District), was merged into the expanded city of Yatsushiro and no longer exists as an independent municipality...
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    follows the former part of the JR Kyushu Kagoshima Main Line that connected Yatsushiro and Sendai in Kumamoto and Kagoshima Prefectures, known historically as...
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  • the villages of Izumi and Tōyō (all from Yatsushiro District), was merged into the expanded city of Yatsushiro and no longer exists as an independent municipality...
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  • Ryūhoku (竜北町, Ryūhoku-machi) was a town located in Yatsushiro District, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of...
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    for passengers to change to a Relay Tsubame narrow gauge train at Shin-Yatsushiro, and the remainder of the journey to Hakata Station. The northernmost...
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    2004, from the merger of the towns of Ichinomiya, Isawa, Misaka and Yatsushiro, the village of Sakaigawa (all from Higashiyatsushiro District), and the...
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    Kami-shima, or “God island,” refers to a Shinto shrine on the island called Yatsushiro shrine. Archaeologists have found hundreds of ceremonial artifacts on...
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    2006-03-01 [384] Kumamoto 熊本市  Kumamoto 738,907 267.23 2,509 1889-04-01 [385] Yatsushiro 八代市  Kumamoto 134,491 680.59 198 1940-09-01 [386] Hitoyoshi 人吉市  Kumamoto...
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    Ushibuka, Kumamoto 09697 Uto District, Kumamoto 0964 Uto, Kumamoto 0964 Yamaga, Kumamoto 0968 Yatsushiro District, Kumamoto 0964 Yatsushiro, Kumamoto 0965...
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  • Kamimashiki 57.93 Yamato 山都町 Kumamoto Kamimashiki 544.67 Hikawa 氷川町 Kumamoto Yatsushiro 33.36 Ashikita 芦北町 Kumamoto Ashikita 233.97 Tsunagi 津奈木町 Kumamoto Ashikita...
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    specifically for the Kyushu Shinkansen extension from Hakata to Shin-Yatsushiro Station which continues southward through its existing route to Kagoshima-Chūō...
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  • villages of Izumi and Sakamoto (all from Yatsushiro District), was merged into the expanded city of Yatsushiro and no longer exists as an independent municipality...
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