Kakegawa, Shizuoka
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Kakegawa 掛川市 |
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Kakegawa Castle
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 Location of Kakegawa in Shizuoka Prefecture |
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 Kakegawa
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| Coordinates: 34°46′7.3″N 137°59′54.3″E / 34.768694°N 137.998417°ECoordinates: 34°46′7.3″N 137°59′54.3″E / 34.768694°N 137.998417°E | |||
| Country | Japan | ||
| Region | Chūbu (Tōkai) | ||
| Prefecture | Shizuoka Prefecture | ||
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| • – Mayor | Saburo Matsui (since April 2009) | ||
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| • Total | 265.69 km2 (102.58 sq mi) | ||
| Population (September 2015) | |||
| • Total | 113,852 | ||
| • Density | 429/km2 (1,110/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9) | ||
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| • Tree | Sweet osmanthus | ||
| • Flower | Chinese bellflower | ||
| • Bird | Japanese bush-warbler | ||
| Phone number | 0537-21-1111 | ||
| Address | 1-1-1, Nagaya, Kakegawa-shi, Shizuoka-ken 436-8650 | ||
| Website | www |
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Kakegawa (掛川市 Kakegawa-shi?) is a city in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
As of September 2015, the city had an estimated population of 113,852 and a population density of 429 persons per km2. The total area was 265.69 square kilometres (102.58 sq mi).
Kakegawa is in the coastal plains of southwest Shizuoka Prefecture. It is bordered to the south by the Pacific Ocean.
Like most of Japan, Kakegawa's population is almost exclusively Japanese. However, Kakegawa has a noticeable Nikkei (particularly, South American) population and it is more common to find signs written in Portuguese than in English.
The Kakegawa area has been regional commercial center within Tōtōmi Province since at least the Kamakura period, but developed as a castle town under the Imagawa clan, whose headquarters was in neighboring Suruga Province. Kakegawa Castle was built by Asahina Yasuhiro, a retainer of Imagawa Yoshitada, in the Bunmei era (1469–1487). The castle later fell into the hands of the Tokugawa clan, but was then to Toyotomi clan retainer Yamauchi Kazutoyo in 1580. After the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, Kakegawa Domain was created, and ruled by numerous fudai daimyō. The area prospered during the Edo period, as the Tōkaidō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto passed through Kakegawa, whose post stations included Nissaka-shuku and Kakegawa-juku. Neighboring Yokosuka Domain, a smaller fudai holding, was also located within what are now the city limits of Kakegawa.
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