Акаю, Ямагата
По состоянию на 1967 год в городе проживало 12 860 человек, а плотность населения составляла 313 человек на км 2 . Общая площадь составила 41,10 км 2 .
1 апреля 1967 года Акаю был объединен с расширенным городом Наньё и, таким образом, больше не существует как независимый муниципалитет .
The village of Akayu was established on April 1, 1889, with the establishment of the municipalities system. It was raised to town status on December 12, 1895. On June 10, 1955, the village of Nakagawa was annexed by Akayu. On March 21, 1957, the Nakayama neighborhood of Akayu was annexed by the neighboring city of Kaminoyama. On April 1, 1967, the town of Akayu merged with the town of Miyauchi and the village of Wagō to form the city of Nan'yō.
English travel writer Isabella Bird visited Akayu on her travels in Japan in 1878. In Unbeaten Tracks in Japan she wrote of Akayu:
the frequented watering-place of Akayu in the north, is a perfect garden of Eden, 'tilled with a pencil instead of a
plough,' growing in rich profusion rice, cotton, maize, tobacco, hemp, indigo, beans, egg-plants, walnuts, melons, cucumbers, persimmons, apricots, pomegranates; a smiling and plenteous land, an Asiatic Arcadia, prosperous and independent, all its bounteous acres belonging to those who cultivate them, who live under their vines, figs, and pomegranates, free from oppression--a remarkable
