Shōwa-chō

town in Nakakoma District, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan

Place Town Of Japan Q1204276

Facts

15 properties

Identity

Instance of: town of Japan
Inception: July 1, 1942^[8]
Official website: www.town.showa.yamanashi.jp^[9]
Official name: 昭和村, 昭和町^[15]

Location

Country: Japan^[3]
Coordinate location: 🗺️ 35.628°, 138.535°
Located in the administrative territorial entity: Nakakoma district^[2]
Shares border with: Minami-Alps, Kofu, Kai, Chūō-shi^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

Population and size

Area: +9.15^[18]
Population: 18k (18k–21k, n=3)^[10]^[11]^[12]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 20,857 · 19,505 · 17,653 GeoNames 18,884 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

More facts +5

Associated electoral district: Yamanashi 3rd district, Yamanashi 1st district^[21]
Legal form: ordinary local public entity^[16]
Name in kana: しょうわちょう^[17]
Replaces: Saijō, Jōei^[13]^[14]
Transliteration or transcription: Shōwa-chō, Showa-cho^[19]^[20]

🏷️ Also known as

en Shōwa en Showa-cho en Showa Town en Shōwa-chō ar بلدية شووا ar شووا cs Šówa de Showa en-gb Showa en-gb Shōwa fa شووا، یاماناشی hu Sóva ja 昭和村 ja 昭和町 ko 쇼와정 ru Сёва th โชวะ tr Showa uk Сьова uk Шьова

🔖 Identifiers · 18

VIAF cluster ID: 259898042
Library of Congress Authorities ID: n87919471
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Showa town office Yamanashi prefecture.JPG ↗
Corporate Number (Japan): 4000020193844
Dantai code: 193844
Freebase ID: /m/02yh9d
GNS Unique Feature ID: 10736061
GeoLOD ID: uaiSul
GeoNLP ID (obsolete): rw8ZGm
GeoNames ID: 7415925
INaturalist place ID: 101028
J9U entity ID: 987007562566305171

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NDL Authority ID: 00303772
OpenCorporates organization ID: jp/4000020193844
OpenStreetMap relation ID: 4791932
Topic's main category: Category:Shōwa, Yamanashi
Who's on First ID: 890520371
WorldCat Entities ID: E39PBJqBrpBFdqX97W9DmfwDMP

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🔗 Connections

Shares border with 4

Kofu, Minami-Alps, Kai, Chūō-shi

← Shares border with 4

Kofu, Minami-Alps, Kai, Chūō-shi

Contained subdivisions 3

Chuo Expressway, Jōei Station, Kokubo Station

Associated electoral district 1

Yamanashi 1st district

Country 1

Japan

Instance of 1

town of Japan

Located in the administrative territorial entity 1

Nakakoma district

Located in time zone 1

UTC+09:00

Topic's main category 1

Category:Shōwa, Yamanashi

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Shōwa, Yamanashi

← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1

Nakakoma district

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Summary

Shōwa-chō is a town of Japan^[1].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

[3] ↑ Shōwa-chō — country (P17): Japan. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Shōwa-chō — shares border with (P47): Minami-Alps. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Shōwa-chō — shares border with (P47): Kofu. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Shōwa-chō — shares border with (P47): Kai. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Shōwa-chō — shares border with (P47): Chūō-shi. wikidata.org.
[2] ↑ Shōwa-chō — located in the administrative territorial entity (P131): Nakakoma district. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Shōwa-chō — inception (P571): July 1, 1942. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Shōwa-chō — official website (P856): https://www.town.showa.yamanashi.jp/. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Shōwa-chō — population (P1082): 20,857. pref.yamanashi.jp. Retrieved 2021-03-22. pref.yamanashi.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Shōwa-chō — population (P1082): 19,505. e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved 2019-03-17. e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Shōwa-chō — population (P1082): 17,653. e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved 2019-03-17. e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Shōwa-chō — replaces (P1365): Saijō. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Shōwa-chō — replaces (P1365): Jōei. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Shōwa-chō — official name (P1448): 昭和町. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Shōwa-chō — legal form (P1454): ordinary local public entity. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Shōwa-chō — name in kana (P1814): しょうわちょう. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Shōwa-chō — area (P2046): 9.15 km². wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Shōwa-chō — transliteration or transcription (P2440): Shōwa-chō. BS 4812:1972. Retrieved 2025-10-26. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Shōwa-chō — transliteration or transcription (P2440): Showa-cho. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Shōwa-chō — associated electoral district (P7938): Yamanashi 1st district. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Shōwa-chō is an instance of town of Japan (Q1059478) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Area → 9.15 square kilometre

Replaces → Saijō, Jōei

Shares border with → Minami-Alps, Kofu, Kai +1

Located in the administrative territorial entity → Nakakoma district

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