Miura

Miura is a city located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of April 1, 2017, the metropolis had an envisioned populace of 44,132, with 17,473 families, and a populace density of 1,400 men and women according to km2. The total vicinity is 32.05 km2. The location of current Miura has been inhabited because prehistoric instances. Archaeologists have uncovered severa stays from the Japanese paleolithic, Jomon and Yayoi periods. From the overdue Heian duration through the stop of the Sengoku length, the area turned into ruled through the Miura extended family.

During the Edo period, it was tenryo territory dominated without delay by using the Tokugawa shogunate. After the Meiji Restoration, the metropolis of Misaki inside Miura District, Kanagawa changed into created on April 1, 1889. The town become electrified in 1913, but did not have running water till 1934. The area become badly shaken during the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake, which had its epicenter in Sagami Bay only some kilometers offshore from the town.

The entire geographical area around the metropolis was lifted by way of approximately 10 meters with the aid of tectonic motion, earlier than subsiding to its authentic stage at some point of the following few days. No essential tsunami became recorded. On January 1, 1955, Misaki absorbed neighboring Minami-Shitaura Town and Hasse Village to create the city of Miura. The city became connected to the Tokyo Metropolis with the aid of rail on July 7, 1966 with the hole of Miurakaigan Station at the outskirts of the metropolis.