Gyoda

Gyoda is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 February 2016, the city had an estimated populace of 81,871, and a population density of 1210 men and women in keeping with km². Its general place is 67.49 square kilometres 26.06 sq.Mi. Gyoda contains many Kofun length burial mounds and has been inhabited due to the fact prehistoric times. “Saitama” is a local vicinity call inside Gyoda, and is recorded in Nara length documents.

During the Sengoku length, Oshi Castle famously withstood a siege by way of Ishida Mitsunari in 1590. During the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate, the citadel was the center of Oshi Domain, ruled through a branch of the Matsudaira extended family till 1871, at some point of which period the fort metropolis prospered from its region at the Nakasendo dual carriageway. The metropolis of Gyoda changed into created inside Kitasaitama District, Saitama with the established order of the municipalities machine on April 1, 1889. On April 1, 1937, Gyōda annexed the neighboring villages of Nagano, Hoshikawa and Mochida.