Kashiwa, Chiba
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Kashiwa 柏市 |
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Looking east from Kashiwa Station
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 Location of Kashiwa in Chiba Prefecture |
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 Kashiwa
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| Coordinates: 35°52′3.3″N 139°58′32.7″E / 35.867583°N 139.975750°ECoordinates: 35°52′3.3″N 139°58′32.7″E / 35.867583°N 139.975750°E | |||
| Country | Japan | ||
| Region | Kantō | ||
| Prefecture | Chiba Prefecture | ||
| Government | |||
| • -Mayor | Hiroyasu Akiyama (since November 2009) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 114.74 km2 (44.30 sq mi) | ||
| Population (December 1, 2015) | |||
| • Total | 411,602 | ||
| • Density | 3,590/km2 (9,300/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9) | ||
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| • tree | Daimyo oak, Castanopsis | ||
| • Flower | Phlox subulata; Erythronium japonicum; sunflower | ||
| • Bird | Azure-winged magpie | ||
| Phone number | 04-7167-1111 | ||
| Address | 5-10-1 Kashiwa, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba-ken 270-8505 | ||
| Website | www |
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Kashiwa (柏市 Kashiwa-shi?) is a city located in northwestern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of December 1, 2015, the city had an estimated population of 411,602 and a population density of 3,590 persons per km2. The total area was 114.72 square kilometres (44.29 sq mi).
The name of the city of Kashiwa in the Japanese language is written with a single kanji character, , a reference to Quercus dentata, commonly known in English as the daimyo oak.
Kashiwa is located on the Shimōsa Plateau in the far northwestern corner of Chiba Prefecture.
Kashiwa has been settled since ancient times, and was historically part of Shimōsa Province. The area around Kashiwa was the site of the Battle of Sakainehara in 1478 early in the Sengoku period (1467 – 1573). During the Edo period (1603 – 1868), the area was tenryō territory controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate. The shogunate established a number of horse ranches which provided war horses for the army of the shogunate. The Tokugawa shogunate put much effort into draining the marshy areas of Lake Tekanuma during the Edo period as part of large-scale land reclamation carried out across Japan. Kashiwa was developed as a post station on the Mito Kaidō, which connected the capitol at Edo with Mito in present-day Ibaraki Prefecture.
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