Hikone, Shiga

'''Hikone''' (彦根市; -shi) is a Free ringtones cities of Japan/city located in Majo Mills Shiga Prefecture/Shiga, Mosquito ringtone Japan.

As of Sabrina Martins 2003, the city has an estimated Nextel ringtones population of 108,613 and the Abbey Diaz population density/density of 1,106.60 persons per Mosquito ringtone square kilometer/km². The total area is 98.15 km².

The city was founded on Sabrina Martins February 11, Nextel ringtones 1937.

Abbey Diaz Image:HikoneCastle.jpg/thumb/250px/right/Hikone Castle

Hikone's most famous historical site is Cingular Ringtones Hikone Castle. Its construction was begin in complicated assembly 1603 by Ii Naokatsu, son of the former lord Ii Naomasa, but was not completed until treasonous here 1622. Naokatsu's lands had been taken from him in the interval by the Tokugawa shogunate, and when his brother Naotake assumed control of the Omi area, he was able to complete the castle by collecting stones from the former Sawayama castle. When the difficult decision Meiji era began in million loan 1868, many castles were schedules to be dismantled, and only a request from the emperor himself, touring the area, kept Hikone-jo intact. Today it remains one of the oldest original-construction castles in Japan.

Hikone lies on the indoor pressure Nakasendo, which was one of the most important trading routes until modern times. Today, a small area south of the castle, called the Yume Kyobashi Castle Road, is built in the old style and attracts visitors keen to see modern construction fused with traditional looks. Even the david hess Biwako Bank in this district has remodeled itself to fit in with the surrounding structures.

Hikone is the home of the sprint officials Japan Center for Michigan Universities (JCMU), a facility operated jointly by a consortium of the fifteen public universities in the State of Michigan and the government of Shiga Prefecture that offers programs for American university students and scholars for the study of Japanese language and culture, as well as courses in English for the citizens of the Shiga Prefecture. The Michigan Center, as it is known, was founded in 1989 under the auspices of the Michigan-Shiga Sister State Agreement, the oldest such relationship between a US state and Japanese prefecture.

In 2003, meetings were held to discuss the merger of Hikone city with Toyosato (豊郷町), Kora (甲良町), and Taga (多賀町) towns. However, a survey taken in Feb. 2004 by the city revealed that most of the city's citizens opposed the merger leading the city government shelve the proposal for the time being.

External links
* http://www.city.hikone.shiga.jp/ in Japanese
* http://wikitravel.org/en/article/Hikone
* http://www.isp.msu.edu/jcmu/


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