Kanagawa

Kanagawa is a prefecture situated in Kanto locale of Japan. The capital of the prefecture is Yokohama. Kanagawa is a piece of the Greater Tokyo Area. Kanagawa Prefecture is home to Kamakura and Hakone, two mainstream side excursion goals from Tokyo. Kanagawa is a moderately little prefecture situated at the southeastern corner of the Kanto Plain wedged between Tokyo on the north, the lower regions of Mount Fuji on the northwest, and the Sagami Bay and Tokyo Bay on the south and east.

The eastern side of the prefecture is moderately level and vigorously urbanized, including the extensive port urban communities of Yokohama and Kawasaki. The prefecture has some archeological destinations returning to the Jomon time frame around 400 BCE. Around 3,000 years back, Mount Hakone created a volcanic blast which brought about Lake Ashi on the western region of the prefecture. In medieval Japan, Kanagawa was a piece of the regions of Sagami and Musashi.

Kamakura in focal Sagami was the capital of Japan amid the Kamakura time frame. In 1945, Kanagawa was the 15th most crowded prefecture in Japan, with the number of inhabitants in about 1.9 million. In the years after the war, the prefecture experienced quick urbanization as a piece of the Greater Tokyo Area. The populace as of September 1, 2014, is evaluated to be 9.1 million. Kanagawa turned into the second most crowded prefecture in 2006.