Kameyama

Kameyama is a city in the north-central part of Mie Prefecture, Japan, with the Suzuka Mountains in the northwest and the Nunobiki Mountains in the southwest, and more than half of its area is forest. It developed as the castle town of Kameyama Castle, which belonged to the Ise-Kameyama Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. In the early 17th century the castle town was Kameyama-juku, the forty-sixth post station of the Tōkaidō, and Seki-juku and Sakashita-juku, also on the Tōkaidō, fall within the city borders. Kameyama was elevated to city status on 1 October 1954 and absorbed the town of Seki in 2005. Candles are a traditional product of the city, and Sharp Corporation has operated one of the largest LCD factories in the world there since January 2004. Kameyama Castle and Seki-juku are its local attractions. The estimated population was 49,457 and the area is 190.91 square kilometres.