Yoshino, Nara

Yoshino
Yoshino; 吉野町
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	Location of Yoshino in Nara Prefecture
	Yoshino
	Coordinates: 34°24′N 135°51′E / 34.4°N 135.85°ECoordinates: 34°24′N 135°51′E / 34.4°N 135.85°E
Country	Japan
Region	Kansai
Prefecture	Nara Prefecture
District	Yoshino District
	Area
• Total	95.96 km2 (37.05 sq mi)
	Population (September 1, 2007)
• Total	9,397
• Density	97.93/km2 (253.6/sq mi)
Time zone	Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)
Phone number	639-3192
Address	80-1 Ōaza Kamiichi, Yoshino-machi, Yoshino-gun, Nara-ken; 639-3192
Website	Town of Yoshino

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For the professional wrestler, see Masato Yoshino.

Yoshino (吉野町, Yoshino-chō^?) is a town located in Yoshino District, Nara Prefecture, Japan.

As of September 1, 2007, the town had an estimated population of 9397 and a density of 97.93 persons per km². The total area was 95.65 km².

[edit] Geography

Located in the northern portion of Yoshino District, the majority of the town is covered by mountains. However, places along the Yoshino River are rather flatter than the other areas, where many roads, train tracks, and houses exist.

Yoshinoyama Visitors Center.

For adherents of Shugendo, Yoshino is the traditional beginning of the Mount Omine pilgrimage trail; however, many hikers to begin and end their trek from the Dorogawa district of Tenkawa Village.

Mount Yoshino is famous for its many thousands of sakura trees. These flowering specimen trees were planted in four groves at different altitudes, in part so that the famed trees would come into bloom at different times of the spring. A 1714 account explained that, on their climb to the top, travelers would be able to enjoy the lower 1,000 cherry trees at the base, the middle 1,000 on the way, the upper 1,000 toward the top, and the 1,000 in the precincts of the inner shrine at the top.^[1]