Fukuroi

Fukuroi is a town positioned in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of March 2018, the town had an expected populace of 86,602 and a population density of 799 humans in step with km². The general location turned into 108.33 square kilometres. During the Sengoku period, Fukuroi become a part of the area inside Totomi Province governed by way of Yamauchi Kazutoyo from Kakegawa Castle. During the Edo length, it become tenryo territory below direct control of the Tokugawa shogunate, and prospered as Fukuroi-juku at the Tokaido toll road connecting Edo with Kyoto.

After the Meiji Restoration, within the cadastral reorganization for 1889, Fukuroi-juku have become the city of Yamana, within Yamana District, Shizuoka Prefecture. Yamana District changed into merged into Iwata District in 1896, and the city's call was changed back to Fukuroi in 1909. Fukuroi merged with the neighboring village of Kasai in 1928. It persisted to develop inside the 1950s, annexing neighboring villages of Kudonishi from Shuchi District in 1948, Kudo in 1952, Imai in 1954, Mikawa in 1955, Tahara in 1956, as well as the village of Kasahara from Ogasa District, additionally in 1956.