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The village of
Miyauchi was established on April 1, 1889, with the establishment of the municipalities system. It was raised to town status on February 1, 1955, by merging with the villages of Urushiyama, Yoshino, and Kaneyama. On April 1, 1967, the town of Miyauchi merged with the town of
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is one of the three great Kumano
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