Hiratsuka

Hiratsuka is a city positioned in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of April 1, 2017, the city has an expected population of 257,877, with 109,020 households, and a population density of three,800 men and women in line with km². The total location is 67.88 km². The place round Hiratsuka has been settled on the grounds that prehistoric times, and point out of the vicinity as part of historical Osumi District, Sagami Province is located in Nara period facts. From the Heian length through Kamakura period, the area became divided into shoen managed by means of numerous samurai clans and within the Sengoku length became the site of several battles between the later Hojo extended family of Odawara and the Miura extended family.

After the defeat of the Hojo at the Battle of Odawara via Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the place came below the control of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who built a summer time palace the Nakahara Goten in 1596 at the web site now occupied by using the Hiratsuka City Nakahara Elementary/Primary School. Hiratsuka turned into retained as tenryo territory after the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, and flourished as Hiratsuka-juku, a publish town at the Tokaido connecting Edo with Kyoto. As the 7th station, it's far often depicted in the collection of ukiyo-e approximately the fifty three Stations of the Tokaido made amongst others by artists such Hokusai and Hiroshige.