Shizuoka City
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Shizuoka 静岡市 |
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| City of Shizuoka | |||
Top left: Shizuoka Sengen Shrine; Top right: Nihondaira Stadium
Middle: Mount Fuji & Shimizu Port from Nihondaira Upper bottom left green tea fields; Lower bottom left Toro ruins; Bottom right: Tatsumi yagura of Sunpu Castle |
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 Location of Shizuoka in Shizuoka Prefecture |
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 Shizuoka
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| Coordinates: 34°58′32″N 138°22′58″E / 34.97556°N 138.38278°ECoordinates: 34°58′32″N 138°22′58″E / 34.97556°N 138.38278°E | |||
| Country | Japan | ||
| Region | Chūbu (Tōkai) | ||
| Prefecture | Shizuoka Prefecture | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Nobuhiro Tanabe | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 1,411.90 km2 (545.14 sq mi) | ||
| Population (September 1, 2015) | |||
| • Total | 703,393 | ||
| • Density | 498/km2 (1,290/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9) | ||
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| • Tree | Flowering dogwood | ||
| • Flower | Hollyhock | ||
| • Bird | Common kingfisher | ||
| Phone number | 054-254-2111 | ||
| Address | 5-1 Ōtemachi, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka-ken 420-8602 | ||
| Website | www |
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Shizuoka (静岡市 Shizuoka-shi?, Japanese: [shìzúꜜòkà]) is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and the prefecture's second-largest city in both population and area. It has been populated since prehistoric times.
The city's name is made up of two kanji, 静 shizu, meaning "still" or "calm"; and 岡 oka, meaning "hill(s)". In 1869, Shizuoka Domain was first created out of the older Sunpu Domain, and that name was retained when the city was incorporated in 1885. In 2003, Shizuoka merged with Shimizu City (now Shimizu Ward), briefly becoming the largest city by land area in Japan. In 2005, it became one of Japan's "designated cities".
Shizuoka City lies in central Shizuoka Prefecture, about halfway between Tokyo and Nagoya along the Tōkaidō Corridor, between Suruga Bay to the south and the Minami Alps in the north. Shizuoka had the largest area of any municipality in Japan after merging with Shimizu City in April 2003, until February 2005, when Takayama in Gifu Prefecture superseded it by merging with nine surrounding municipalities.
The total area is 1,411.90 km2 (545.14 sq mi). Shizuoka is the 5th largest city in Japan in terms of geographic area after Takayama, Hamamatsu, , and Kitami. It is also the 2nd largest city in Shizuoka Prefecture in terms of both geographic area and population after Hamamatsu, but ranks higher as an Urban Employment Area, and leads as a metropolitan area and business region.
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