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Encyclopedia > Kaga, Ishikawa

This article is about the city in Ishikawa prefecture, for the former province of Japan, see Kaga province.

Kaga (加賀市; -shi) is a city located in Ishikawa, Japan.


As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 67,293 and the density of 443.89 persons per km². The total area is 151.60 km².


The city was founded on January 1, 1958.


Created as an old temple town, the city was greatly developed by the Maeda family in the early Edo period.


Today, Kaga is an important tourist city with a number of temples and hot-springs.


External links

  • Official website (http://www.city.kaga.ishikawa.jp/) in Japanese
  Ishikawa Prefecture
Cities
Hakui | Kaga | Kahoku | Kanazawa (capital) | Komatsu | Matto | Nanao | Suzu | Wajima
Districts
Enuma | Fugeshi | Hakui | Ishikawa | Kahoku | Kashima | Nomi | Suzu

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Kaga, Ishikawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (157 words)
Kaga (加賀市; -shi) is a city located in Ishikawa, Japan.
The new Kaga city was established in October 1, 2005 by merger of the old Kaga city and Yamanaka town in Enuma District.
Today, Kaga is an important tourist city with a number of temples and hot-springs.
HIJMS Kaga - Wikimedia Commons (227 words)
Kaga (Japanese: 加賀, the ancient Kaga Province, in present-day Ishikawa Prefecture) was an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting the attack by USS Enterprise (CV-6) and USS Yorktown (CV-5) dive bombers on the Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi, Kaga and Soryu in the morning of 4 June 1942.
This plane, damaged during the attack on the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga that morning, landed on Yorktown as it was low on fuel.
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