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19-589: Asago is located in the north of Hyōgo Prefecture. It is located in the east of Chūgoku Mountains , and the mountains and forests were occupy 93％ of the town. The Maruyama flows from south to north in the town. The Tataragi Dam was built across the Tataragi stream, a tributary of the Maruyama. Hyōgo Prefecture Kyoto Prefecture Asago has a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen climate classification Cfa ) with hot summers and cool to cold winters. Precipitation

38-810: A drainage divide and natural barrier in western Japan between the San'in Region to the north and the San'yō Region to the south. The Chūgoku Mountains are the source of several rivers in western Japan. All flow either north to the Japan Sea or south to the Inland Sea with the exception of the Gōnokawa River (206 kilometres (128 mi)), which runs along the mountain range in Hiroshima and Shimane prefectures. The Sendai River (52 kilometres (32 mi)),

57-577: Is a mountain range in the Chūgoku region of western Japan . It runs in an east–west direction and stretches approximately 500 km (311 mi) from Hyōgo Prefecture in the east to the coast of Yamaguchi Prefecture . The range also reaches under the Pacific Ocean . The two tallest mountains in the group are Daisen and Mount Hyōno , which are 1,729 m (5,673 ft) and 1,510 m (4,954 ft), respectively. Many other mountains in

76-676: Is highly automated, and during peak hours trains run as often as every two minutes. JR-West's Urban Network competes with a number of private commuter rail operators around Osaka, the "Big 4" being Hankyu Railway / Hanshin Railway (Hankyu bought Hanshin in April 2005), Keihan Railway , Kintetsu , and Nankai Railway . JR-West's market share in the region is roughly equal to that of the Big 4 put together, largely due to its comprehensive network and high-speed commuter trains (Special Rapid Service trains on

95-842: Is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu . It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka . It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange , is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and is also one of only three Japan Railways Group constituents of the Nikkei 225 index: the others are JR East and JR Central . It was also listed in the Nagoya and Fukuoka stock exchanges until late 2020. JR-West's highest-grossing line

114-665: Is significantly higher in summer than in winter, though on the whole lower than most parts of Honshū, and there is no significant snowfall. The average annual temperature in Asago is 13.4 °C (56.1 °F). The average annual rainfall is 2,091.8 mm (82.35 in) with July as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 25.7 °C (78.3 °F), and lowest in January, at around 1.9 °C (35.4 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Asago

133-793: Is the Sanyo Shinkansen high-speed rail line between Osaka and Fukuoka . The Sanyo Shinkansen alone accounts for about 40% of JR-West's passenger revenues. The company also operates Hakata Minami Line , a short commuter line with Shinkansen trains in Fukuoka . The "Urban Network" is JR-West's name for its commuter rail lines in the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area. These lines together comprise 610 km of track, have 245 stations and account for about 43% of JR-West's passenger revenues. Urban Network stations are equipped to handle ICOCA fare cards. Train control on these lines

152-743: The Chasuriyama Kofun in Wadayama , one of the largest enpun (円墳)-style elliptical burial mounds in the Kansai region . The Ikuno Silver Mine opened in 807 in the early Heian period and mining continue through the Edo Period . During the Sengoku period the area was under the control of the Yamana clan , the shugo of Tajima Province and Takeda Castle was the stronghold their retainers,

171-592: The Sanyō Shinkansen , from the separate Shinkansen Holding Corporation. JR-West purchased the line in October 1991 at a cost of 974.1 billion JPY (about US$ 7.2 billion) in long-term debt. JNRSC sold 68.3% of JR-West in an initial public offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in October 1996. After JNRSC was dissolved in October 1998, its shares of JR-West were transferred to the government-owned Japan Railway Construction Public Corporation (JRCC), which merged into

190-756: The Tenjin River (32 kilometres (20 mi)), the Hino River (77 kilometres (48 mi)), and the Kando River (82 kilometres (51 mi)) all run steeply from the Chūgoku Mountains to the Japan Sea. The Yoshii River (83 kilometres (52 mi)), the Asahi River (88 kilometres (55 mi)), and the Ōta River (655 kilometres (407 mi)) form a broader alluvial plain to the south of

209-466: The Kobe and Kyoto lines operate at up to 130 km/h). Those in italics are announcement names. A number of other lines account for more than half of JR-West's track mileage. These lines mainly handle business and leisure travel between smaller cities and rural areas in western Japan. They account for about 20% of the company's passenger revenues. JR-West subsidiaries include the following. JR-West

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228-582: The Otagaki clan. Following the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate , the area was mostly tenryō territory under direct control of the shogunate due to the importance of the silver mine, with some small areas undertone control of Toyooka Domain or Izushi Domain . Following the Meiji restoration , the area was under"Toyooka Prefecture" until incorporated into Hyōgo Prefecture in 1876. The town of Ikuno and

247-564: The city government and two public high schools operated by the Hyōgo Prefectural Department of Education. There is also one private middle school and one private high school. The prefecture also operates one special education school for the handicapped. [REDACTED] JR West – San'in Main Line [REDACTED] JR West – Bantan Line Ch%C5%ABgoku Mountains Chūgoku Mountains ( 中国山地 , Chūgoku Sanchi )

266-715: The city of Asago. Asago has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 18 members. Asago contributes one member to the Hyogo Prefectural Assembly . In terms of national politics, the city is part of Hyōgo 5th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Asago has mostly a rural economy based on agriculture and commerce. Local industries include food processing, metal products, electrical machinery, and non-ferrous metals. Asago has seven public elementary schools and four public middle schools operated by

285-675: The mountain range and empty in to the Inland Sea. The Chūgoku Mountains are a source of iron sand , and the region was home to some of the earliest production of ironware in Japan. The broad tablelands of the mountain region support cattle ranches, notably for the production of wagyu beef. The numerous rivers of the Chūgoku Mountains support an extensive network of rice production in western Japan. West Japan Railway Company The West Japan Railway Company , also referred to as JR West ( JR西日本 , Jeiāru Nishi-Nihon ) ,

304-421: The range are also over 1,000 m (3,281 ft), while some of the smaller mountains are less than 500 m (1,640 ft). Granite is the most common stone found among the mountains, much of which has been exposed through erosion. Other than Daisen, most of the mountains run along the border of Tottori and Okayama prefectures and the border of Shimane and Hiroshima prefectures. The mountains form

323-472: The villages of Yamaguchi and Akagawa were created with the establishment of the modern municipalities on April 1, 1889. Asago was founded on March 31, 1954, from the merger of the former villages of Yamaguchi and Nakagawa. By 2004, the town had an estimated population of 7,465 and a density of 57.33 persons per km. The total area was 130.20 km. On April 1, 2005, Asago absorbed the towns of Ikuno , Santō and Wadayama (all from Asago District ) to create

342-454: Was 38.0 °C (100.4 °F) on 20 August 2020; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −12.8 °C (9.0 °F) on 28 February 1981. Per Japanese census data, the population of Asago in 2020 is 28,989 people. Asago has been conducting censuses since 1960. The area of Asago was in ancient Tajima Province and is the location of many burial mounds from the Kofun period . These include

361-529: Was incorporated as a business corporation ( kabushiki kaisha ) on April 1, 1987, as part of the breakup of the state-owned Japanese National Railways (JNR). Initially, it was a wholly owned subsidiary of the JNR Settlement Corporation (JNRSC), a special company created to hold the assets of the former JNR while they were shuffled among the new JR companies. For the first four years of its existence, JR-West leased its highest-revenue line,

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