Nukata District

Nukata (額田郡, Nukata-gun) is a district located in central Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

As a result of various consolidations and mergers of municipalities, most of the district was incorporated into the cities of Okazaki and Toyota, and now consists of only the town of Kōta.

In the cadastral reforms of the early Meiji period, on October 1, 1889, Nukata District was divided into one town (Okazaki) and 26 villages.

The towns of Iwazu and Fukuoka, and the villages of Motojuku, Yamanaka, Fujikawa, Ryudani and Tokiwa were merged into the city of Okazaki on February 1, 1955; and on September 30, 1956, the villages of Toyotomi, Miyazaki, Katano, and parts of Shimoyama were merged to form the town of Nukata.

Despite pressure from the central government, on November 14, 2003 Kōta declined to participate the Okazaki-Nukata Region Merger Conference.