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| settlement_type= Special city | image_skyline= Takadajyo 1.jpg | image_caption= Takada Castle | image_flag= Flag of Joetsu, Niigata.svg | image_map= Joetsu in Niigata Prefecture Ja.svg | lat_deg= 37 | lat_min= 9 | lat_sec= | lon_deg= 138 | lon_min= 14 | lon_sec= | region= Chūbu (Kōshin'etsu) (Hokuriku) | prefecture= Niigata Prefecture | district= | mayor= Hideyuki Murayama | area_km2= 973.32 | population= 205,521 | population_as_of= June 1, 2011 | density_km2= 211.15 | tree= Sakura | flower= Camellia | bird= | city_hall_address= 1-1-3 Kida, Jōetsu-shi, Niigata-ken | city_hall_postal_code=943-8601 | website = }} is a city located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. As of June 1, 2011, the city has an estimated population of 205,521, with 72,982 households and a population density of 211.15 persons per km². The total area is 973.32 km². The city was founded on April 29, 1971, when the cities of Takada and Naoetsu were consolidated. The city was exclusively part of the now-defunct Nakakubiki District until December 31, 2004. On January 1, 2005, the town of Yasuzuka, the villages of Maki, Ōshima and Uragawara (all from Higashikubiki District); the towns of Itakura, Kakizaki, Ōgata and Yoshikawa, the villages of Kiyosato, Kubiki, Nakagou and Sanwa (all from Nakakubiki District); and the town of Nadachi (from Nishikubiki District) were merged into Jōetsu. Now Jōetsu has extended into the now-defunct Higashikubiki and Nishikubiki Districts. ==Climate== Jōetsu has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification ''Cfa''). Owing to its location at the foot of Mount Hotaka facing onshore winds from the Sea of Japan, Jōetsu is the wettest low-lying part of the northern hemisphere temperate zone apart from the Owase region of the Kii Peninsula, receiving an average of around of precipitation per year. As a comparison, Forks on the windward side of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula receives and Rize on the Black Sea coast of Turkey . The cold winds from the combined power of the Siberian High and Aleutian Low give Jōetsu an average of of snowfall that however tends to melt significantly even during the winter. On the 26th of February 1945, Jōetsu received as much as of snow in one day. The heaviest annual snowfall, since the beginning of regular snowfall measurements in 1953, was in the 1985/1986 season and the heaviest monthly total precipitation in January 1945, whilst the driest month was August 1985 with . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jōetsu, Niigata」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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