Ayagawa, Kagawa
The town was founded on March 21, 2006 from the merger of the towns of Ayakami and Ryōnan, both from Ayauta District. As of September 2011, the town has an estimated population of 25,294. The total area is 109.67 km. The mayor is Taketoshi Maeda. Geography. Climate. Ayagawa has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification "Cfa") with hot, humid summers, and cool winters. Some rain falls throughout the year, but the months from May to September have the heaviest rain. The average annual temperature in Ayagawa is . The average annual rainfall is with September as the wettest  month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Ayagawa was on 11 August 2013; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 17 February 1986. Demographics. Per Japanese census data, the population of Ayagawa in 2020 is 22,693 people. Ayagawa has been conducting censuses since 1920. Economy. Ayagawa is well known within Kagawa prefecture for several notable udon noodle shops, as well as the Takinomiya Tenmangu Shrine. It has suffered a collapse of local businesses due to the construction of a large shopping complex. As a  result, the former commercial areas are in a state of decay. Transportation. Public transport in Ayagawa is limited. There is a shuttle bus service which has stops in various locations around the city; however, the frequency of shuttles is limited to roughly 1 every hour. Ayagawa also contains several train stations along the Kotoden trainline that runs between Takamatsu and Kotohira.