Yamanashi Hotels

Yamanashi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Ch¨ħbu region of the island of Honsh¨ħ. The capital is the city of K¨­fu. It is bordered by Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Shizuoka, and Nagano. The prefecture is landlocked, with mountains surrounding the central K¨­fu Basin. Mount Fuji is located on the southern border with Shizuoka. Mt. Fuji provides rain shadow effects, and as a result, the prefecture receives only about 818 mm of rainfall a year.People have been living in the Yamanashi area for about 30,000 years[citation needed]. As in most other Japanese regions, prehistoric society in Yamanashi progressed though the hunting, fishing and gathering stage of the J¨­mon period, then the rice-producing stage of the Yayoi period and subsequent village and regional formation. The Maruyama and Choshizuka Kofun (earthen burial mounds) located on Sone Hill of Nakamichi TownĦĦ(currently in southern K¨­fu) are believed to have been built from the end of the 4th century. From these remains it can be assumed that the people of Sone Hill had great influence.