前橋市
alternative words: Maebashishi city, Maebashishi, Maebashi shi, Maebashi
keywords:
town
related topics:
Gunma prefecture
related web sites:
http://www.city.maebashi.gunma.jp
explanation: Capital of Gunma prefecture. Located in southern Gunma between Mt Akagi and Mt Haruna, Maebashi has been always the regional political center and owns the biggest tumulus of eastern Japan, Tenjinyama kofun. During Edo period Maebashi had developed as a castle town and a distribution center of raw silk. Now the main activity has switched to machinery and electrical appliances. Maebashi is a phonetic deformation of Umayabashi i.e. "bridge near stable". The population is 283,000.
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