Toyosato, Shiga

Toyosato 豊郷町
—  Town  —
Location of Toyosato in Shiga
Toyosato
Coordinates: 35°12′N 136°14′E
Country	Japan
Region	Kansai
Prefecture	Shiga
District	Inukami
Government
• Mayor	Sadamu Itō
Area
• Total	7.78 km2 (3 sq mi)
Population (2003)
• Total	7,292
• Density	937.3/km2 (2,427.5/sq mi)
Time zone	Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)
City symbols
- Tree	Quercus phillyraeoides
- Flower	Rhododendron
Phone number	0749-35-8111
Address	375, Ishibatake, Toyosato-chō, Inukami-gun, Shiga-ken 529-1169
Website	Town of Toyosato

Toyosato (豊郷町, Toyosato-chō) is a town located in Inukami District, Shiga, Japan.

As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 7,292 and a density of 937.28 persons per km². The total area is 7.78 km², the smallest town in Shiga. It is said that a home of Goshu Ondo.

Since the Medieval Period to the 20th century, some Toyosato people had became merchants because of its good traffic (Nakasendō), poor irrigation for agriculture, economic encouragement policy of daimyo. Success merchants, such as a founder of Itochu, contributed to modernize their hometown. For example, Tetsujirō Furukawa donated smart ferroconcrete school buildings which designed by William Merrell Vories for the Toyosato Elementary School in 1937. The Toyosato Elementary School moved to new buildings in 2004, but the preservation of the old buildings resulted from a resident movement. In 2009, a fictional school which looks almost exactly like the old buildings appeared in a TV anime K-On!, so otaku take notice of Toyosato.

References

• The compilation committee of Kadokawa Nihon Chimei Daijiten (1979). Kadokawa Nihon Chimei Daijiten 25 Shiga-ken. Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten.

External Links

Media related to Toyosato, Shiga at Wikimedia Commons

• Toyosato official website (Japanese)
• Toyosato Tourism Association (Japanese)