Chigasaki

Chigasaki is a city positioned in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of July 2016, the metropolis has an expected populace of 239,874, and a population density of 6,719.2 humans consistent with km2. The ordinary area is 35.71 km2. The vicinity around Chigasaki has been inhabited thinking about the truth that prehistoric instances. The region have become in large part pasture and farmland properly into the Edo length.

The Tokaido connecting Edo with Kyoto exceeded via what is now Chigasaki, but without a put up station. A big part of the area have come to be the tenryo territory in Sagami Province controlled at once via the Tokugawa Shogunate thru the Edo duration, despite the fact that exclusive elements had been administered by means of small clans which incorporates the Ooka prolonged family, that is renowned for its descendant Ooka Tadasuke.

After the begin of the Meiji length, the Tokaido Main Line railway related Chigasaki Station with Tokyo and Osaka in 1898, which spurred the improvement of the location. Chigasaki village in Koza District, Kanagawa Prefecture have become Chigasaki metropolis in 1908. In 1921, the Sagami Line railway connected Chigasaki with Hashimoto to the north. Chigasaki have grow to be a metropolis on October 1, 1947.