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{{Infobox settlement

| name = Fuefuki
| official_name =
| native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|ja|笛吹市}}}}
| native_name_lang = ja
| settlement_type = [[Cities of Japan|City]]

| image_skyline = Fuefuki City hall March 2014.JPG
| image_caption = Fuefuki City Hall
| image_flag = Flag of Fuefuki, Yamanashi.svg
| image_seal = File:Emblem of Fuefuki, Yamanashi.svg
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| map_caption1 = Location of Fuefuki in [[Yamanashi Prefecture]]
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| coordinates = {{coord|35|38|50.3|N|138|38|23|E|region:JP|display=inline,title}}
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| subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name = Japan
| subdivision_type1 = [[List of regions of Japan|Region]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Chūbu region|Chūbu]] ([[Tōkai region|Tōkai]])
| subdivision_type2 = [[Prefectures of Japan|Prefecture]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Yamanashi Prefecture]]

| established_title = First official recorded
| established_date = 35 AD (official)
| established_title2 = Isawa town settled
| established_date2 = August 10, 1903
| established_title3 = Kasugaichi town settled
| established_date3 = October 1, 1969
| established_title4 = Both town merged and city settled
| established_date4 = October 12, 2004
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| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = [[:ja:山下正樹|Masaki Yamashita]] (since November 2016)

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| area_total_km2 = 201.92
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| population_total = 69463
| population_as_of = March 31, 2019
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| population_density_km2 = auto
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| timezone1 = [[Japan Standard Time]]
| utc_offset1 = +9
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| blank_name_sec1 = Symbols
| blank_info_sec1 =  
| blank1_name_sec1 = • Tree
| blank1_info_sec1 = [[Peach]]
| blank2_name_sec1 = • Flower
| blank2_info_sec1 = [[Rose]]
| blank3_name_sec1 = • Bird
| blank3_info_sec1 = [[Blue-and-white flycatcher]]

| blank_name_sec2 = Address
| blank_info_sec2 = 777 Ichibu, Isawa-chō, Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi-ken 406-8510

| website = {{Official|1=http://www.city.fuefuki.yamanashi.jp/}}
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[[file:Ichinomiya asama-jinja.jpg|thumb|right|270px|Ichinomiya Asama Shrine]]
{{Nihongo|'''Fuefuki'''|笛吹市|Fuefuki-shi}} is a [[Cities of Japan|city]] in [[Yamanashi Prefecture]], [[Japan]]. {{As of|2020|09|01}}, the city had an estimated [[population]] of 67,300 in 30,408 households,<ref name="Fuefuki profile">{{Cite web |last=笛吹市 |title=Fuefuki City official statistics |url=https://www.city.fuefuki.yamanashi.jp/kikaku/shisejoho/shinogaiyo/profile/index.html |access-date=2023-10-13 |website=city.fuefuki.yamanashi.jp |language=ja}}</ref> and a [[population density]] of 340 persons per km<sup>2</sup>. The total area of the city is {{convert|201.92|sqkm|sqmi}}.

==Geography==
Fuefuki is located in central Yamanashi Prefecture at an average altitude of 261 meters.<ref name = "Fuefuki profile"/> Just over 58% of the area of the city is covered in forest. The Fuefuki River flows through the city.

===Neighboring municipalities===
The following municipalities surrounding the city clockwise starting from Kōfu.
*[[Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi|Fuji-kawaguchiko]], [[Minamitsuru District]]
*[[Kōfu, Yamanashi|Kōfu]]
*[[Kōshū, Yamanashi|Kōshū]]
*[[Ōtsuki, Yamanashi|Ōtsuki]]
*[[Yamanashi, Yamanashi|Yamanashi ]]

===Climate===
The city has a climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and relatively mild winters ([[Köppen climate classification]] ''Cfa''). The average annual temperature in Fuefuki is 10.7 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1524 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 22.8 °C, and lowest in January, at around -1.0 °C.<ref>[https://en.climate-data.org/asia/japan/yamanashi/fuefuki-714940/ Fuefuki climate data]</ref>

==Demographics==
Per Japanese census data,<ref>[https://www.citypopulation.de/php/japan-yamanashi.php Fuefuki population statistics]</ref> the population of Fuefuki peaked around the year 2000 and has declined since.

{{Historical populations
| 1940 | 49,960
| 1950 | 61,882
| 1960 | 53,064
| 1970 | 50,380
| 1980 | 55,950
| 1990 | 62,322
| 2000 | 71,025
| 2010 | 70,529
| 2020 | 66,947
|align = none
| footnote =
}}

==History==
Fuefuki was the center of ancient [[Kai Province]] and contains many [[kofun|burial mounds]] from the [[Kofun period]]. The ruins of the [[Kai Kokubun-ji]], the [[Nara period]] [[provincial temple]] are also found within the city limits, as is the [[Ichinomiya Asama Shrine (Fuefuki)|Ichinomiya Asama Shrine]], the ''[[ichinomiya]]'' of Kai Province. During the [[Edo period]], all of Kai Province was ''[[tenryō]]'' territory under direct control of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], with a ''[[daikansho]]'' based at the village of Isawa. During the cadastral reform of the early [[Meiji period]] on April 1, 1889, the rural districts of [[Higashiyatsushiro District, Yamanashi|Higashiyatsushiro]] and [[Higashiyamanashi District, Yamanashi|Higashiyamanashi Districts]] were formed.{{Citation needed|date=November 2013}}

The modern city of Fuefuki was established on October 12, 2004, from the merger of the towns of [[Ichinomiya, Yamanashi|Ichinomiya]], [[Isawa, Yamanashi|Isawa]], [[Misaka, Yamanashi|Misaka]] and [[Yatsushiro, Yamanashi|Yatsushiro]], the village of [[Sakaigawa, Yamanashi|Sakaigawa]] (all from [[Higashiyatsushiro District, Yamanashi|Higashiyatsushiro District]]), and the town of [[Kasugai, Yamanashi|Kasugai]] (from [[Higashiyamanashi District, Yamanashi|Higashiyamanashi District]]).<ref>{{Cite web |last=笛吹市 |title=合併協定項目 |url=https://www.city.fuefuki.yamanashi.jp/sesaku/shisejoho/shinogaiyo/gappe/6chouson/kyotekomoku.html |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=笛吹市 |language=ja |quote=東八代郡石和町、同郡御坂町、同郡一宮町、同郡八代町、同郡境川村及び東山梨郡春日居町を廃し、その区域をもって新しい市を設置する新設合併とする。}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=89y4AAAAIAAJ |title=現代用語の基礎知識 |date=2005 |publisher=自由国民社 |isbn=978-4-426-10123-7 |pages=472 |language=ja |quote=笛吹市 10 月 12 日に山梨県石和町、御坂町、一宮町、八代町、境川村、春日居町が合併して笛吹市が誕生する。}}</ref> The name refers to the [[Fuefuki River]] that flows through the city. The city hall is located at the former Isawa Town Hall, and other former towns and village halls were converted to satellite offices.

On August 1, 2006, Fuefuki later absorbed the village of [[Ashigawa, Yamanashi|Ashigawa]] (also from [[Higashiyatsushiro District, Yamanashi|Higashiyatsushiro District]]. Higashiyatsushiro District was dissolved as a result of this merger.

==Government==
Fuefuki has a [[mayor-council]] form of government with a directly elected mayor and a [[unicameral]] city legislature of 19 members.

==Economy==
The economy of Fuefuki is based on agriculture (horticulture), seasonal tourism and the production of wine. Fuefuki is the largest producer of grapes and peaches in Japan.<ref name = "Fuefuki profile"/>

==Education==
Fuefuki has 14 public elementary schools and five public junior high schools operated by the city government,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.city.fuefuki.yamanashi.jp/file/4/4bb32bf432e7d.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-04-06 |archive-date=2017-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207114004/http://www.city.fuefuki.yamanashi.jp/file/4/4bb32bf432e7d.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> and one public high school operated by the Yamanashi Prefectural Board of Education.

Elementary Schools:
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
#Isawa Minami (South) 石和南
#Isawa Higashi (East) 石和東
#Isawa Kita (North) 石和北
#Fujimi 富士見
#Isawa Nishi (West) 石和西
#Misaka Higashi (East) 御坂東
#Misaka Nishi (West) 御坂西
#Ichinomiya Nishi (West) 一宮西
#Ichinomiya Minami (South) 一宮南
#Ichinomiya Kita (North) 一宮北
#Yatsushiro 八代
#Sakaigawa 境川
#Kasugai 春日居
#Ashigawa 芦川
{{div col end}}
Junior High Schools:
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
#Isawa 石和
#Misaka 御坂
#Ichinomiya 一宮
#Asakawa 浅川
#Kasugai 春日居
{{div col end}}
High School:
#Fuefuki 笛吹

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Maglev Exhibition Center (31420289212).jpg|A maglev train test run center and Maglev Exhibition Center
File:Distant view of the Chuo Shinkansen Yamanashi test track west end.Sept.2013.JPG|Panorama view of Fuefuki and Maglev train test run exhibition
</gallery>

==Transportation==
===Railway===
*[[File:JR logo (east).svg|20px]] [[East Japan Railway Company]] - [[Chūō Main Line]]
** {{STN|Isawa-onsen|x}} - {{STN|Kasugaichō|x}}

===Highways===
*[[Image:JP Expressway E19.svg|24px|link=|alt=E19]] [[Chūō Expressway]]
*{{jct|country=JPN|Route|20}}
*{{jct|country=JPN|Route|137}}
*{{jct|country=JPN|Route|140}}
*{{jct|country=JPN|Route|358}}
*{{jct|country=JPN|Route|411}}

==Sister cities==
*{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Tateyama, Chiba]], since May 1973 with former Isawa Town<ref name="profile">[http://www.city.fuefuki.yamanashi.jp/shisei/profile.php] Fuefuki official home page, City Profile</ref>
*{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi]], since July 1962 with former Misaka Town<ref name=profile/>
*{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Ichinomiya, Chiba]], since April 1982 with former Ichinomiya Town<ref name=profile/>
*{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Yui, Shizuoka]], since April 1989 with former Yatsushiro Town<ref name=profile/>
*{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Tainai, Niigata]], since October 1996 with former Sakaigawa Village<ref name=profile/>
*{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Sado, Niigata]], since October 1989 with former Kasugai Town<ref name=profile/>
*{{flagicon|Germany}} [[Bad Mergentheim]], [[Baden-Württemberg]], Germany, since 1991 with former Isawa Town<ref name=International>{{cite web|url=http://www.clair.or.jp/cgi-bin/simai/e/03.cgi?p=19&n=Yamanashi%20Prefecture|title=International Exchange|work=List of Affiliation Partners within Prefectures|publisher=Council of Local Authorities for International Relations (CLAIR)|access-date=21 November 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205180944/http://www.clair.or.jp/cgi-bin/simai/e/03.cgi?p=19&n=Yamanashi%20Prefecture|archive-date=5 February 2016}}</ref>
*{{flagicon|France}} [[Nuits-Saint-Georges]], [[Côte-d'Or]], France, since 1992 with former Ichinomiya Town<ref name=International/>
*{{flagicon|China}} [[Feicheng]], [[Shandong]], China, since 1994 with former Ichinomiya Town<ref name=International/>

==Local attractions==
*[[Yamanashi Prefectural Museum]]
*The Shakado Museum of Jomon Culture

==Notable people from Fuefuki==
*[[Dakotsu Iida]], haiku poet<ref>[http://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1107469/63 National Diet Library]</ref>

== In popular culture ==
* Fuefuki serves as the inspiration for the fictional town of Inaba in the 2008 video game [[Persona 4]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=6 Reasons Persona 4 Golden on PC Is a Must (Re)Play |url=https://twinfinite.net/2020/06/6-reasons-persona-4-golden-on-pc-is-a-must-replay/|access-date=2020-08-10|website=Twinfinite|date=18 June 2020}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Fuefuki, Yamanashi}}
*[http://www.city.fuefuki.yamanashi.jp/ Official Website] {{in lang|ja}}
*{{osmrelation-inline|4792039}}
{{Yamanashi}}

{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Cities in Yamanashi Prefecture]]
[[Category:Fuefuki, Yamanashi]]

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