Kanaya

Kanaya become a metropolis located in Haibara District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 2005, the metropolis had an predicted populace of 20,364 and a density of 318.29 persons in line with km². The general area turned into 64.36 km². On May 5, 2005, Kanaya changed into merged into its lengthy-time twin city, the multiplied metropolis of Shimada and for that reason no longer exists as an impartial municipality. Kanaya was evolved from the Edo length as Kanaya-juku, a post metropolis at the TOkaido.

Located on the west financial institution of the Oi River, Kanaya prospered from the Tokugawa Shogunate's policy of not allowing any bridge or ferry to be installed on the Oi River if you want to toughen Edo's defenses. Travellers ready to move the river strolling have been often trapped in Kanaya for days, if now not weeks, waiting for the river to grow to be shallow enough to ford. Kanaya Town become mounted in 1889. It merged with neighboring Goka Village in 1957.