Satte

• Name — Satte • Settlement Type — City • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Japan • Subdivision Type1 — Region • Subdivision Name1 — Kantō • Subdivision Type2 — Prefecture • Subdivision Name2 — Saitama • Leader Title — Mayor • Area Total Km2 — 33.93 • Population Total — 50256 • Population As Of — January 2021 • Population Density Km2 — auto • Timezone1 — Japan Standard Time • Utc Offset1 — +9 • Blank Name Sec1 — City Symbols • Blank1 Name Sec1 — - Tree • Blank1 Info Sec1 — Podocarpus macrophyllus • Blank2 Name Sec1 — - Flower • Blank2 Info Sec1 — Sakura • Blank3 Name Sec1 — - Bird • Blank Name Sec2 — Phone number • Blank Info Sec2 — 0480-43-1111 • Blank1 Name Sec2 — Address • Blank1 Info Sec2 — 4-6-8 Higashi, Satte-shi, Saitama-ken 340-0192 • Website — 1=http: www.city.satte.saitama.jp/ • Illustration — Gongendō Park

Located in the flatlands far eastern Saitama Prefecture, Satte is at the convergence of Saitama, Chiba and Ibaraki Prefectures, at an average altitude of approximately 20 m above sea level. The Edo River and the Naka River flow through the city, which is approximately from downtown Tokyo.

Chiba Prefecture • Noda Ibaraki Prefecture • Goka Saitama Prefecture • Kuki • Sugito

Satte has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Satte is. The average annual rainfall is with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around, and lowest in January, at around

Per Japanese census data, the population of Satte peaked around the year 2000 and has declined since.

During the Kamakura period, Satte developed as a post town on the Kamakura Kaidō, and maintained that role through the Edo period with the Nikkō Kaidō and the Nikkō Onari Kaidō. The town of Satte was created within Kitakatsushika District, Saitama with the establishment of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. It was raised to city status on October 1, 1986. Discussions to merge with neighboring Kuji and Washimiya in 2004 resulted in the selection of a new city name of Sakuranomiya, but the merger never took place.

Satte has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 15 members. Satte, together with the town of Sugito, contributes one member to the Saitama Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Saitama 14th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.

The economy of Satte is primarily agricultural.

• Japan University of Health Sciences • Satte has nine public elementary schools and three public middle schools operated by the city government, and one public high school operated by the Saitama Prefectural Board of Education.

Tōbu Railway - Tobu Nikkō Line • Satte

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• Gongendo Tsutsumi. About 1,000 Yoshino cherry trees are spread out over 1 km along the top of the levee of the Gongendo river. During cherry blossom season, many visitors from all over the prefecture and beyond come to enjoy the picturesque pink and yellow of cherry and rapeseed blossoms, and vendors set up stalls. The levee is also sown with hydrangea and red spider lilies, which bloom in the summer and fall.

• Kagami Yoshimizu, the creator of the Lucky Star series, was born in Satte. Although he has now moved out of Satte, his house was turned into the Lucky Star Museum, made to resemble Konata Izumi's (one of the main characters in the series) house for a few years. The museum is now closed.