Kiso, Nagano (town)

Kiso木曽町, is a [update], a town had an estimated The almost Beautiful Villages in Japan.

Geography

Kiso is located in mountainous southwest Nagano Prefecture, bordered by Gifu Prefecture to the west.

Per Japanese census data, the population of Kiso has dropped rapidly over the last 50 years.

The town has a climate characterized by characterized by warm and humid summers, and cold winters with heavy snowfall Köppen climate classification Dfb. The average annual temperature in Kiso is 10.8 °C 51.4 °F. The average annual rainfall is 1,926.7 mm 75.85 in with July as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 23.2 °C 73.8 °F, and lowest in January, at around −1.4 °C 29.5 °F.