Funabashi

Funabashi is a metropolis located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of February 2016, the metropolis had an anticipated populace of 623,679, and a population density of 7,280 people in line with km². The overall place is 85.62 square kilometres. The call “Funabashi" is referred to in the Kamakura length chronicle Azuma Kagami. However, the name itself is even extra ancient, courting from before the Nara duration and the Yamatotakeru mythology.

Archaeologists have found stone equipment from the Japanese Paleolithic duration and shell middens from the Jomon period in the location, indicating non-stop inhabitation for thousands of years. A number of Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in the region to were based in the Nara period or Heian length. During the Muromachi durations, the location became managed by the Chiba extended family.

During the Sengoku length, the Chiba clan fought the Satomi clan to the south, and the Later Hojo clan to the west. After the defeat of the Chiba clan, the area came inside the control of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Funabashi is a regional industrial middle and, due to its numerous teach connections, a bedroom network for nearby Chiba and Tokyo.