Atsugi

Atsugi is a city located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of June 2012, the town has an envisioned populace of 224,462, and a population density of 2,390 persons in keeping with km². The overall area is 93.83 km². While the name Atsugi is frequently related to the US Navy base named Naval Air Facility Atsugi, the bottom is truly not in Atsugi, however straddles the border between the close by cities of Ayase and Yamato. The region round gift-day Atsugi town has been inhabited for heaps of years.

Archaeologists have located ceramic shards from the Jomon duration at severa locations in the location. By the Kamakura duration, this region part of the Mori shoen, part of the holdings of Oe no Hiromoto. His descendants, the Mori clan later dominated Choshu area. During the Kamakura period, the region changed into additionally known for its foundry enterprise for the manufacturing of bells for Buddhist temples. The area got here beneath the manipulate of the Ashikaga clan inside the early Muromachi duration and became later a part of the territories of the Later Hojo clan from Odawara.