Tsuruoka

Tsuruoka is a city in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. As of October 2015, the city had an expected population of 129,639, and a populace density of 98.84 folks in keeping with km². The general vicinity is 1,311.53 rectangular kilometres. Tsuruoka is the biggest city in Tohoku place in phrases of floor vicinity. Today's Tsuruoka is the result of the fusion of numerous neighborhoods around the middle of the city inclusive of: Atsumi, Asahi, Fujishima, Kushibiki, and Haguro in 1953.

The location of present-day Tsuruoka become part of historical Dewa Province, and changed into below the control of the Shonai Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate in the Edo period. It turned into a minor port for the kitamaebune coastal change. After the begin of the Meiji period, the place organized as Tsuruoka Town under Nishitagawa District, Yamagata Prefecture in 1878. It turned into extended to metropolis repute on October 1, 1924 becoming Japan's one hundredth town. In 1955, the metropolis extended via annexing the town of Kamo and 9 neighboring villages. The city of Oyama was annexed by Tsuruoka in 1963.