Kakegawa

Kakegawa is a town in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of March 2018, the city had an predicted population of 114,915 and a populace density of 433 men and women in keeping with km2. The total place changed into 265.69 square kilometres. The Kakegawa area has been regional business center inside Totomi Province when you consider that as a minimum the Kamakura period, however evolved as a castle metropolis beneath the Imagawa clan, whose headquarters turned into in neighboring Suruga Province.

Kakegawa Castle changed into constructed by using Asahina Yasuhiro, a retainer of Imagawa Yoshitada, in the Bunmei generation 1469–1487. The castle later fell into the fingers of the Tokugawa clan, however become then to Toyotomi clan retainer Yamauchi Kazutoyo in 1580. After the established order of the Tokugawa shogunate, Kakegawa Domain become created, and dominated via numerous fudai daimyo. The vicinity prospered at some point of the Edo length, as the Tokaido motorway connecting Edo with Kyoto exceeded through Kakegawa, whose submit stations protected Nissaka-shuku and Kakegawa-juku. Neighboring Yokosuka Domain, a smaller fudai holding, became also placed within what are now the town limits of Kakegawa.