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Historic Sites Attractions In Shizuoka Prefecture

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Shizuoka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. The capital is the city of Shizuoka, while Hamamatsu is the largest city by population.
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Historic Sites Attractions In Shizuoka Prefecture

  • 1. Kakegawa Castle Kakegawa
    Kakegawa is a city in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of March 2018, the city had an estimated population of 114,915 and a population density of 433 persons per km2. The total area was 265.69 square kilometres .
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  • 2. Hamamatsu Castle Hamamatsu
    Hamamatsu is a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of March 1, 2018, the city had an estimated population of 795,350, making it the prefecture's largest city and a population density of 510 persons per km2. The total area was 1,558.06 km2 . On July 1, 2005, Hamamatsu absorbed the cities of Tenryū and Hamakita, the town of Haruno , the towns of Hosoe, Inasa and Mikkabi , the towns of Misakubo and Sakuma, the village of Tatsuyama , and the towns of Maisaka and Yūtō to become the current and expanded city of Hamamatsu. It became a city designated by government ordinance on April 1, 2007.
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  • 5. Perry Road Shimoda
    The Perry Expedition was a diplomatic and military expedition to Bakumatsu period Japan, involving two separate trips by warships of the United States Navy, which took place during 1853–54. The goals of this expedition included exploration, surveying, and the establishment of diplomatic relations and negotiation of trade agreements with various nations of the region; opening contact with the government of Japan was considered a top priority of the expedition, and was one of the key reasons for its inception. The expedition was commanded by Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, under orders from American President Millard Fillmore. Perry’s primary goal was to force an end to Japan’s 220-year-old policy of isolation and to open Japanese ports to American trade, through the use of gunboat ...
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  • 9. Ieyama Station Shimada
    Ieyama Station is a railway station in Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, on the Ōigawa Main Line. It is operated by the Ōigawa Railway. Its location was formerly the town of Kawane, which was merged into Shimada in 2008.
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  • 11. Arai Sekisho Kosai
    The Arai Barrier is the only surviving security checkpoint of several which were established by the Tokugawa Shogunate on the Tōkaidō highway connecting the capital of Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. Its official name was the Imagiri Barier Located between Maisaka-juku and Arai-juku, in what is now the city of Kosai, Shizuoka Prefecture, the checkpoint was strategically positioned on the narrow strip of land between Lake Hamana and the Pacific Ocean, and was the only checkpoint on the Tōkaidō intended for travelers both by land and by water. All travelers were required to submit to an examination of their travel permits, and taxes were levied on commercial travelers with merchandise. The initial checkpoint, built around 1600, was destroyed by a tsunami during the Genroku period and...
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  • 13. Toi Kinzan Izu
    The Toi gold mine was an important gold mine of Japan, located within the city of Toi, Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka Prefecture.
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