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Nagano

Nagano

10 4.4
A city in central Japan northwest of Tokyo, famous for the Zenko-ji temple and the 1998 Winter Olympics
  • proper noun
: Nagano
  • Many visitors travel to Nagano to see its famous Buddhist shrine nestled in the mountains.
  • Nagano, Japan

Examples

  • It was on July 6, 1991, in Nagano Prefecture in a place called Yasuoka Village.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • I graduated from a college of engineering in the city of Nagano and went to work for a precision toolmaker in the area.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • I live in Nagano to this day.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • I finished elementary school in Nagano and stayed on through junior and senior high school there.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • I moved to Nagano Province in January to live with my father's family in a mountain village near Komoro.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Similar tests of biodegradable films will be done in the Nagano Prefecture, where vegetable farming is intense.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Snow Country Region in Japan is a geographical area covering towns in Gunma, Niigata, and Nagano.

    Blog text (16)
  • I was up in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture (site of the 2002 Winter Olympics).

    Blog text (11)
  • In going through the storage shed, he had found a cardboard carton crammed with childhood things of mine, which he sent to me in Nagano.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • The 1998 Winter Olympics took place in Nagano, Japan, attracting athletes from around the world.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Nagano comes from the Japanese parts naga 'long' and no 'field' or 'plain', so the name literally means 'long field' and helps you picture a city in a wide valley in central Japan.