Kyu-

[joshnii 2]

There's lots of towns in Niigata that used to be towns in their own right but have now been sucked into a bigger 'city'. They are often refereed to as kyu-town name (meaning something along the lines of 'used to be called-town name'.

 

For how long are they going to keep on referring to places as that? It's been 2 years now since the big changes here, and they still called places 旧town

[me jane 0]

Once people get used to the name it's probably gonna stick.

Kind of like the Europeans who named places in North America & Oz New York, New South Wales etc but in reverse?!

[gamera 0]

Maybe less than 10 years?

If people talk about some place name which existed a lot longer ago, I guess they say "mukashino *** town " instead of "kyu *** town". But anyway there's no border for the usage, so it's up to who talks about what.

When we talk about some Japanese history, sometimes I find someone say "kyu- *** han(藩) = a feudal clan )which existed more than 100 years ago.

[its-a-clock 0]

I was wondering that. There sure are a lot of kyu- towns around right now.