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Can any of you guys in that area of Niigata clear something up for me? Minamiuonuma is a city now, right? What happened to Minamiuonunma-gun? Does that still exist?

 

Thanks!

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Hi there

 

Minamiuonuma-gun used to include:

 

Yuzawa

Shiozawa

Muikamachi

Urasa/Yamata.

 

Shiozawa, Muikamachi and Ursasa are now together (in name) as Minamiuonuma-shi (city).

 

Minamiuonuma-gun does actually still exist, but the only place that uses it in addresses is Yuzawa-machi (town), which seems a bit odd. But there you go.

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Yes shi is city.

 

(Though it is still hard to think of Minamiuonuma as a city as it is made up of 4 small towns with no real centre).

 

machi is town

 

gun I'm not sure how that is translated like county (though smaller than county back in England).

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I thought Yuzawa was going to join in the -shi fun - they opted out of joining in? I suppose they are richer than the rest so wouldn't want to share...

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