- Kaga, Ishikawa
:"This article is about the city in Ishikawa prefecture, for the former province of Japan, see
Kaga Province ."Infobox City Japan
Name= Kaga
JapaneseName= 加賀市
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Region= Chūbu (Hokuriku)
Prefecture= Ishikawa
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Area_km2= 306
PopDate= April 2008
Population= 73,492
Density_km2= 240
Coords= coord|36|18|N|136|19|E|region:JP_type:city
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SymbolDescription= Flag
Mayor= Jin Ōsaka
CityHallPostalCode= 922-8622
CityHallAddress= 2-41 Minami-chō, Daishōji, Kaga-shi, Ishikawa-ken
CityHallPhone= 0761-72-1111
CityHallLink= [http://www.city.kaga.ishikawa.jp/index.php City of Kaga]nihongo|Kaga|加賀市|Kaga-shi is a city located in the southwest of
Ishikawa Prefecture ,Japan .Created as an old temple town, the city was greatly developed by the
Maeda clan in the earlyEdo period . The original city was founded onJanuary 1 ,1958 . The modern Kaga was established inOctober 1 ,2005 by merger of the former city of Kaga and town of Yamanaka in Enuma District.Today, Kaga is an important tourist city with a number of
temple s andhot-spring s.External links
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* [http://www.city.kaga.ishikawa.jp/ Official website] in Japanese
* [http://www.city.kaga.ishikawa.jp/eng Official website] in English
* [http://www.tabimati.net/en/index.htm Official Kaga Tourist Information Site] in English
* [http://hot-ishikawa.jp/f-lang/english/ Ishikawa Prefecture Tourism Guide] in English
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