Sekigahara
Sign in to savetown in Fuwa district, Gifu prefecture, Japan
Key facts
- Country
- Japan
- Region
- Chūbu
- Prefecture
- Gifu
- District
- Fuwa
- Mayor
- Kentarō Azai
- Total
- 49.28 km (19.03 sq mi)
- Density
- 144.3/km (373.6/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+9 ( Japan Standard Time )
- Phone number
- 0585-22-2111
- Address
- Sekigahara 894-58, Sekigahara-chō, Fuwa-gun, Gifu-ken 503-1592
- Website
- Official website
- Bird
- Rock ptarmigan
- Flower
- Ume
- Tree
- Japanese Cedar
via Wikipedia infobox
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Site of the Battle of Sekigahara Sekigahara (関ケ原町, Sekigahara-chō) is a town located in Fuwa District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 December 2018, the town had an estimated population of 7,109 and a population density of 140 persons per km, in 2,725 households. The total area of the town was 49.28 square kilometres (19.03 sq mi).
The town is most famous for the Battle of Sekigahara which ended the Sengoku Period and created the Tokugawa Shogunate. Due to this, Sekigahara is also a sister city of Waterloo, Belgium and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, sites of other famous and significant battles on their continents.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sekigahara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.