Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama
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Hodogaya 保土ケ谷区 |
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| Hodogaya Ward | ||
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 Location of Hodogaya in Kanagawa |
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 Hodogaya
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| Coordinates: 35°27′36″N 139°35′46″E / 35.46000°N 139.59611°ECoordinates: 35°27′36″N 139°35′46″E / 35.46000°N 139.59611°E | ||
| Country | Japan | |
| Region | Kantō | |
| Prefecture | Kanagawa | |
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| • Total | 21.81 km2 (8.42 sq mi) | |
| Population (February 2010) | ||
| • Total | 205,887 | |
| • Density | 9,400/km2 (24,000/sq mi) | |
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| • Tree | Castanopsis, flowering peach | |
| • Flower | Viola | |
| • Bird | Indian spot-billed duck | |
| Time zone | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9) | |
| City hall address | 2-9 Kawabe-chō, Hodogaya-ku Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 240-0001 |
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| Website | www |
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Hodogaya-ku (保土ケ谷区?) is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, Hodogaya Ward had an estimated population of 205,887 and a density of 9,400 inhabitants per square kilometer (24,000/sq mi). The total area was 21.91 km2 (8.46 sq mi).
Hodogaya Ward is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture, and near the geographic center of the city of Yokohama. The area is largely flatland, with scattered small hills.
The area around present-day Hodogaya has been inhabited for thousands of years. Archaeologists have found stone tools from the Japanese Paleolithic period and ceramic shards from the Jomon period at numerous locations in the area. Under the Nara period Ritsuryō system, it became part of Tachibana District and Tsutsuki District in Musashi Province. By the Heian period it was part of a huge shōen controlled by Ise Shrine and administered by the Hangaya clan, a subsidiary of the Hatakeyama clan. By the Kamakura period, the Hatakeyama clan ruled as local warlords until their territories were seized by the Late Hōjō clan from Odawara in the late Muromachi period. After the defeat of the Hōjō at the Battle of Odawara, the territory came under the control of Tokugawa Ieyasu. It was administered as tenryō territory controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate, but administered through various hatamoto. The area prospered in the Edo period as Hodogaya-juku, a post station on the Tōkaidō connecting Edo with Kyoto.
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