Shimada

Shimada is a city placed in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city, which covers an area of 315.7 square kilometres, had an envisioned population in March 2019 of 96,226, giving a populace density of 305 individuals in line with km2. Shimada Kanaya started as an outlying fortification to Kakegawa Castle erected by way of Yamauchi Kazutoyo inside the Sengoku length to manipulate the crossing of the Oi River. In the Edo duration, Kanaya-juku and Shimada-juku developed as publish cities on the Tokaido toll road connecting Edo with Kyoto.

The region become typically tenryo territory under direct manipulate of the Tokugawa shogunate with a daikansho based totally at a Jinya placed within Shimada-juku. As the Tokugawa shogunate forbade the development of any bridge or establishment of a ferry carrier on the Oi River for shielding functions, travellers were often detained at either Shimada or Kanaya for days, now and again weeks, looking ahead to the river degrees to fall to fordable stages. The first bridge the Horai Bridge throughout the river related these two towns in 1879, after the Meiji Restoration.