Fuchū

Fuchū is an inland industrial city in eastern Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, set in the basin of the Ashida River. It was the site of the Bingo provincial capital in the Nara period and later largely belonged to Fukuyama Domain. The village of Fuchūichi was created in 1889, became a town in 1896 and a city in 1954, and absorbed the town of Joge in 2004. Furniture making has been a local industry since the Edo period, and the paulownia wood Fuchū chest of drawers is famous; Fuchū miso, cotton processing, textiles, dyeing, tobacco and die-cast metal products also feature. It should not be confused with Fuchū in Tokyo.