Kanagawa prefecture (神奈川県 Kanagawa-ken; ) prefecture is located to the southwest of Tokyo in Japan.
Cities
Mountain and summer Ayu Festival
Other destinations
Understand
Kanagawa prefecture has the second largest population in Japan and its economic activity is much the same as Korea.
Get around
By train
Around the Miura Peninsula, Keikyu has a practical monopoly on transport, with its trains and buses being cheaper and more extensive than JR. They offer one-day passes which are good deals if you want to explore the area (as well as Tokyo area passes for travelers from Yokohama). Inquire at Shinagawa or Yokohama station for details.
For Enoshima and Kamakura, JR Tokaido Line(東海道線), Yokosuka Line(横須賀線), and Shonan Shinjuku Line(湘南新宿ライン) is a convenient way.
Narita Express Train has direct service till Ofuna Station 2 sations from Kamakura Station.
See
Eat
The young of sardines pizza（シラスピザ） at Enoshima Aquarium（えのすい）.
A wafer cake filled with bean jam shape one's an enoden of local train.（江ノ電モナカ）.
A pigeon cookie（鳩サブレー）.
is a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Honshū, Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.
History
In medieval Japan, Kanagawa was part of the provinces of Sagami and Musashi.
Kamakura in central Sagami was the capital of Japan during the Kamakura period (1185-1333).
During the Edo period, the western part of Sagami Province was governed by the daimyo of Odawara Castle, while the eastern part was directly governed by the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo (Tokyo).
Commodore Matthew Perry landed in Kanagawa in 1853 and 1854, and signed the Convention of Kanagawa to force open Japanese ports to the United States. Yokohama, the largest deep-water port in Tokyo Bay, was opened to foreign traders in 1859 after several more years of foreign pressure, and eventually developed into the largest trading port in Japan. Nearby Yokosuka, closer to the mouth of Tokyo Bay, developed as a naval port and now serves as headquarters for the U.S. 7th Fleet and the fleet operations of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Yokohama, Kawasaki and other major cities were heavily damaged by the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923 and U.S. bombing in 1945.
Geography
Kanagawa is a relatively small prefecture wedged between Tokyo on the north, the foothills of Mount Fuji on the northwest, and the Pacific Ocean and Tokyo Bay on the south and east. The eastern side of the prefecture is relatively flat and heavily urbanized, including the large port cities of Yokohama and Kawasaki, but becomes more relaxed to the southeast, near the Miura Peninsula, where the ancient city of Kamakura draws tourists to its temples and shrines. The western part is more mountainous and includes resort areas like Odawara and Hakone.
The Tama River forms much of the boundary between Kanagawa and Tokyo. The Sagami River flows through the middle of the prefecture.
Cities
Nineteen cities are located in Kanagawa Prefecture:
Transportation
Kanagawa's transport network is heavily intertwined with that of Tokyo (see: Transportation in Greater Tokyo). Most air travel to Kanagawa goes through Tokyo International Airport or Narita International Airport. The Tōkaidō Shinkansen provides high-speed rail service to Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and other major cities.
Education
The Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education manages and oversees individual municipal school districts. The board of education also directly operates most of the public high schools in the prefecture.
Also Ruki, Uruha and Reita, formers of the Japanese band The GazettE, have lived and grew up in the Kanagawa Prefecture and had their education on one of these high schools.
Culture
Sports
The sports teams listed below are based in Kanagawa.
Football (soccer)
Baseball
Volleyball
Tourism
The city of Kamakura is famous as the location of many Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines.
Yokohama Chinatown is the largest Chinatown in Japan (larger than Chinatowns in both Kobe and Nagasaki) and it is one of the largest in the world.
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