:Yōrō, Gifu
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| name = Yōrō
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| subdivision_name1 = Chūbu
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| subdivision_name2 = Gifu
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| subdivision_name3 = Yōrō
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| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Takashi Ōhashi
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| population_total = 29309
| population_as_of = April 1, 2018
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| blank_info_sec2 = 0584-32-1100
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| blank1_info_sec2 = Takada 798, Yōrō-chō, Yōrō-gun, Gifu-ken 503-1392
| website = {{official|1=http://www.town.yoro.gifu.jp}}
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{{nihongo|Yōrō|養老町|Yōrō-chō}} is a town located in Yōrō District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. {{As of|2018|04|01}}, the town had an estimated population of 29,309 in 10,356 households and a population density of 405 persons per km2. The total area of the town was {{convert|72.29|sqkm|sqmi}}.[http://www.town.yoro.gifu.jp/docs/2016021700810/ Yōrō Town official statistics]{{in lang|ja}}
Geography
Yōrō is located in south-west Gifu Prefecture, with the Yōrō Mountains to the west and the plains of the Ibi River to the east, The Makita River also flows through the town. The town has a climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and mild winters (Köppen climate classification Cfa). The average annual temperature in Yōrō is 15.3 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1840 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 27.6 °C, and lowest in January, at around 4.1 °C.{{Cite web |title=Yoro climate: Weather Yoro & temperature by month |url=https://en.climate-data.org/asia/japan/gifu-prefecture/yoro-769545/ |access-date=2023-10-25 |website=en.climate-data.org}}
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Demographics
Per Japanese census data,{{Cite web |title=Yōrō (Gifu , Japan) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map, Location, Weather and Web Information |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/japan/gifu/_/21341__y%C5%8Dr%C5%8D/ |access-date=2023-10-25 |website=www.citypopulation.de}} the population of Yōrō peaked around the year 2000 and has declined since.
{{Historical populations
| 1970 | 27,766
| 1980 | 31,371
| 1990 | 33,102
| 2000 | 33,256
| 2010 | 31,332
| 2020 | 26,882
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History
The area around Yōrō was part of traditional Mino Province. With the post-Meiji restoration cadastral reforms, the town of Yōrō was established on April 1, 1897. Yōrō merged with the town of Takeda and villages of Hirohata, Kamitado, Ikebe, Kasago, Kobata, Tado, Hiyoshi and Aihara in 1954 to form the town of Yōrō. A referendum to merge into the city of Ōgaki was defeated in 2004.
Education
Yōrō has four public elementary schools and two public junior high schools operated by the town government, and one public high school operated by the Gifu Prefectural Board of Education.
Transportation
= Railway =
- 20px Yōrō Railway Yōrō Line
- {{STN|Yōrō|x}} - {{STN|Mino-Takada|x}} - {{STN|Karasue|x}}
=Highway=
- File:JP Expressway E1.svg Meishin Expressway
- 20px Tōkai-Kanjō Expressway
- {{jct|country=JPN|Route|258}}
Sister cities
Local attractions
- Kikusui-Sen spring
- Mount Yōrō
- Reversible Destiny-Yoro Park is a theme park in Yōrō described as "an 'experience park' conceived on the theme of encountering the unexpected. By guiding visitors through various unexpected experiences as they walk through its component areas, the Site offers them opportunities to rethink their physical and spiritual orientation to the world."{{cite web|url=http://www.yoro-park.com/e/rev/index_a_en.html|title=Reversible Destiny-Yoro Park Official Website}} The park was opened in October 1995. Designed by Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins.
- Tōkai Nature Trail{{cite web|url=http://hometown.infocreate.co.jp/en/chubu/yoro/midoko-e.html|title=Places to Visit - Yōrō}}
- Yōrō Falls{{cite web|url=http://hometown.infocreate.co.jp/en/chubu/yoro/yoro-e.html|title=The Yoro Waterfall and the Legend of the Dutiful Son}}
- Yōrō Temple
=Local legends=
- A local woodcutter discovered a stream that ran with fine sake. He filled a gourd and brought the liquid to his father. Drinking the liquid made his father feel youthful and turned his hair from gray to black. Empress Gensho of Nara visited Yōrō to try the liquid and it made her youthful, too.
- There is a persimmon tree that grows hair on the grounds of Fukugen-ji temple, because a murder victim is buried beneath the tree.See Ross, Catrien; Japan (1996), Supernatural and Mysterious Japan: Spirits, Hauntings, and Paranormal Phenomena (1st ed.). Yenbooks. {{ISBN|4-900737-37-2}}.{{cite web|url=http://www.seekjapan.jp/article/jz/1286/Creepy+Japan|author=Emily Millar|title=Creepy Japan}}
References
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Gallery
File:De gehoorzame zoon van Yôrô, een verhaal uit de Tien morale lessen-Rijksmuseum RP-P-1958-442.jpeg|Yoro artwork
File:De Yôrô waterval-Rijksmuseum RP-P-1976-231.jpeg| Yōrō Falls
External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Yoro, Gifu|Yōrō, Gifu}}
- [http://www.town.yoro.gifu.jp/ Yoro official website] {{in lang|ja}}
- [http://www.seekjapan.jp/article/jz/2421/Color+Yoro+World "Color Yoro World"] by Steven Kenworthy
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