Sakaki, Nagano

Sakaki (坂城町, Sakaki-machi) is a town located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

The average annual rainfall is 1086 mm with September as the wettest month.

[2] Per Japanese census data,[3] the population of Sakaki has remained relatively constant over the past 70 years.

The area was part of the holdings of the short-lived Sakaki Domain (1683–1702) during the early Edo period, and was thereafter tenryō territory controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate via the Naka-no-jō daikanshō until the Meiji restoration.

[4] Agricultural products include rice, horticulture (apples, pears and grapes) and cut flowers.

Showa Bridge over the Chikuma River in Sakaki