- Kusatsu, Shiga
Infobox City Japan
Name= Kusatsu
JapaneseName= 草津市
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Region=Kansai
Prefecture=Shiga
District=
Area_km2=67.92
PopDate=April 2008
Population=123,690
Density_km2=1820
Coords=
LatitudeDegrees= 35
LatitudeMinutes= 1
LatitudeSeconds=
LongtitudeDegrees= 135
LongtitudeMinutes= 58
LongtitudeSeconds=
Tree=Sweet Osmanthus
Flower=Aobana (Commelina communis L. var. hortensis Makino)
Bird=
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SymbolDescription= Flag
Mayor=Wataru Hashikawa
CityHallPostalCode=525-8588
CityHallAddress=3-13-30, Kusatsu, Kusatsu-shi, Shiga-ken
CityHallPhone= 077-563-1234
CityHallLink= [http://www.city.kusatsu.shiga.jp/ Kusatsu City]nihongo|Kusatsu|草津市|Kusatsu-shi is a city located in
Shiga Prefecture ,Japan . The city was founded onOctober 15 ,1954 , and as of 2008, the city has an estimatedpopulation of 123,690 and the density of 1,820 persons per km². The total area is 67.92 km².Overview
The city mostly comprises large new apartment blocks and many people chose to live there due to the views over
Lake Biwa and the ease of commuting to work inKyoto ,Osaka or otherKansai centres. For similar reasons, there are severalbusiness hotel s,love hotel s and hotels catering for weddings around Kusatsu.Kusatsu can be reached from
Kyoto by travelling by train on the TōkaidōBiwako Line .Tourism
There is a
museum related to the natural history of Lake Biwa located within the city and close to a bridge over the lake, and theMizunomori Water Botanical Garden features extensive displays of lotus plants.The city is often confused with Kusatsu,
Gunma Prefecture , which is a famoushot spring resort. There is even an imitation of the Gunma Kusatsu hot spring in the local publicbath house .ister cities
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Michigan ,USA
*flagicon|ChinaXuhui-qu ,Shanghai ,China External links
* [http://www.city.kusatsu.shiga.jp/ Official website] in Japanese
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