Kakegawa

Kakegawa City Hall
Kakegawa-shi ; 掛川市
Geographical location in Japan
Region :	Chūbu
Prefecture :	Shizuoka
Coordinates :	34 ° 46 ' N , 138 ° 0' E Coordinates: 34 ° 46 '7 " N , 137 ° 59' 54" E
Basic data
Surface:	265.63 km²
Residents :	115,022 ; (October 1, 2019)
Population density :	433 inhabitants per km²
Community key :	22213-5
Symbols
Tree :	Osmanthus fragrans var. Aurantiacus
Flower :	Balloon flower
Bird :	Japanese Bush Warbler
town hall
Address :	Kakegawa City Hall ; 1 - 1 - 1 , Nagaya; Kakegawa -shi ; Shizuoka 436-8650
Website URL:	http://www.city.kakegawa.shizuoka.jp/
Location of Kakegawas in Shizuoka Prefecture

Kakegawa ( Japanese 掛川市 , - shi ) is a city in Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan .

geography

Kakegawa is located southwest of Shizuoka and east of Hamamatsu on the Pacific Ocean .

history

In 1113 Imagawa Ujichika built a castle in Kakegawa, which then passed through different hands. The following daimyo received the castle in the Tokugawa period: 1601 Hisamatsu , 1617 Andō , 1618 Hisamatsu, 1624 Asakura , 1633 Ōyama , 1635 Sakurai , 1639 Honda , 1644 Fujii , 1648 Hōjō , 1659 Ii , 1706 Sakurai, 1711 Ogasawara and finally 1746– 1868 the Ōta with an income of 50,000 koku .

The city of Kakegawa was founded in 1954 with the incorporation of two villages ( 曽我村 and 東山口村 ) into the municipality of Kakegawa ( 掛川町 , ~ chō ). With the incorporation of the communities Daitō ( 大東町 , -chō ) and Ōsuka ( 大須賀町 , -chō ) of the district of Ogasa on April 1, 2005 , Kakegawa was re-established as a city and the district was dissolved.