Tsu, Mie

is a ceety locatit in Mie Prefectur, Japan. It is the caipital o Mie Prefectur. As o September 2012, the ceety haed an estimatit population o 282,980 an a population density o 398 persons per km². The tot aurie wis 710.81&nbsp;km².

## Geografie
Tsu is locatit in east-central Kii Peninsula, in central Mie Prefectur. It stretches the width o Mie Prefectur, an is bordered bi Ise Bay on the Paceefic Ocean tae the east, an Nara Prefectur tae the wast. Pairts o the ceety are within the leemits o the Murō-Akame-Aoyama Quasi-Naitional Pairk.

### Neighborin municipalities
* The ceety o Suzuka, tae the north.
* The ceety o Kameyama, tae the north.
* The ceety o Matsuzaka, tae the sooth.
* The ceety o Iga, tae the wast.
* The ceety o Nabari tae the wast.
*The veelage o Soni, Nara tae the wast.
*The veelage o Mitsue, Nara tae the wast

## Climate
Tsu haes a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification *Cfa*) wi het simmers an cuil winters. Precipitation is signeeficant throughoot the year, but is hiviest frae Mey tae September.





## History
Tsu oreeginally developed as a port toun kent as  in the Nara an Heian periods. The port wis destroyed bi a tsunami in the 1498 Meiō Nankaidō yirdquauk. The toun wis rebuilt as a castle toun an a post station bi the Sudo clan, daimyo o Tsu Domain unner the Tokugawa shogunate. Durin the Edo era, it acame a popular stoppin pynt for travelers tae Ise shrine, aboot 40&nbsp;km tae the sootheast.

Followin the Meiji restoration, it acame the caipital o Mie Prefectur in 1871. Wi the establishment o municipalities on Aprile 1, 1889, Tsu wis ane o oreeginal 31 ceeties tae be proclaimed.

Durin Warld War II, Allied air raids on Julie 24 an Julie 28, 1945 destroyed maist o the ceety an killed 1239 fowk

On Januar 1, 2006, the neighborin ceety o Hisai, the touns o Anō, Geinō an Kawage, an the veelage o Misato, aw frae Age Destrict; an the touns o Hakusan, Ichishi an Karasu, an the veelage o Misugi frae Ichishi Destrict, wur merged intae Tsu. As a result o the merger, the ceety acame the seicont lairgest in Mie bi population behind Yokkaichi, an acame the lairgest in Mie bi aurie ahead o Matsusaka.

## Economy
Imuraya, a confectionery company, an ZTV, a cable telly operator, are heidquartered in Tsu.

## Transportation

### Railway
*JR Central – Kisei Main Line
** - -  - 
*JR Central – Meishō Line
**  -  -  -  –  -  -  -  -  -  -  - 
*Kintetsu – Nagoya Line
** -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  - 
*Kintetsu – Osaka Line
**  -  -  -  - 
*Ise Railway – Ise Line
**  –  –  - 

### Highway
*Ise Expressway
*Japan Naitional Route 23
*Japan Naitional Route 163
*Japan Naitional Route 165
*Japan Naitional Route 306
*Japan Naitional Route 368
*Japan Naitional Route 369
*Japan Naitional Route 422

### Seaports
*Port o Tsu-Matsusaka

## Eddication
*Mie Varsity, the prefectur's anly naitional varsity.
*Tsu Ceety College
*Mie Prefectural College o Nursin
*Takada Junior College

## Sister ceety relations
* – Higashishirakawa, Gifu, syne Juin 28, 1989
* – Shūnan, Yamaguchi, syne Mey 8, 1990
* – Kamifurano, Hokkaidō, syne Julie 30, 1997
* – Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil, syne October 18, 1976
* – Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, Cheenae – syne Juin 11, 1984

## Local attractions
Tsu is famous for its , a festival commemoratin the arrival o the Joseon Tongsinsa delegation frae Korea durin the feudal period. Thare are twa ither ceeties that celebrate Tōjin Odori: Suzuka ceety in Mie Prefectur an Ushimado-chō in Okayama Prefectur.

The ruins o Tsu Castle hae been made intae a dountoun ceety pairk.

## Notit fowk
*Sho Gokyu – professional soccer player
*Mika Hagi – 2007 Miss Japan
*Mu Kanazaki – professional soccer player
*Kōji Kitao – sumo wrestler
*Kotokaze Kōki – sumo wrestler
*Ayumi Oka – actress
*Hiroshi Okuda – umwhile preses o Toyota Motors
*Edogawa Rampo – author
*Chikara Sakaguchi - politeecian
*Hidesaburō Ueno – agricultural scientist 
*Saori Yoshida – Olympic wrestler

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Tsu offeecial wabsteid in Japanese