Sagamihara

Sagamihara is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is the third most crowded city in the prefecture, after Yokohama and Kawasaki, and the 5th most crowded suburb of the Greater Tokyo Area. Its northern neighbor is Machida, with which a cross-prefectural merger has been proposed. As of April 1, 2017, the city has an expected populace of 720,986, with 316,648 households, and a populace thickness of 2,200 people for every km². The all out territory is 328.91 km².

On 1 April 2010, the city turned into the 19th city assigned by government mandate. The region of present day Sagamihara has been settled since old occasions, and has various stays from the Japanese Paleolithic time frame and Kofun period have been found. It was home to the Yokoyama family, one of the seven warrior families of the Musashi area amid the early Kamakura period.

Amid the Edo time frame, the grounds around Sagamihara were a tenryo area hypothetically controlled specifically by the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo; in any case, in all actuality, the territory was an interwoven of little fiefs held by different hatamoto, just as exclaves under the control of the Ogino-Yamanaka Domain and Karasuyama Domain. Sagamihara covers a vast region of northwestern Kanagawa Prefecture.