Kōhoku-ku ( 港北区 ) is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan. As of March 1, 2012, the ward had an estimated population of 332,488, with 156,198 households and a population density of 10,588.79 persons per km. The total area was 31.40 km. Kōhoku Ward has the largest population of Yokohama's 18 wards, and ranks second to Naka Ward in the total number of workplaces.
5-552: Kōhoku Ward is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture, and on the northeastern borders of the city of Yokohama. The area around present-day Kōhoku Ward was formerly part of Tsuzuki District in Musashi Province . During the Edo period , it was a rural region classified as tenryō territory controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate , but administered through various hatamoto . After
10-774: The Meiji Restoration , the area became part of the new Kanagawa Prefecture in 1868. In the cadastral reform of April 1, 1889, the area was divided into numerous villages. In April 1939, it was annexed by the neighboring city of Yokohama. Kōhoku Ward is largely a regional commercial center and bedroom community for central Yokohama, Kawasaki and Tokyo. Companies headquartered in the ward include: Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education operates prefectural high schools: Private high schools: The Yokohama Municipal Board of Education [ ja ] operates municipal elementary and junior high schools. Municipal junior high schools: Municipal elementary schools: Additionally,
15-462: The dominant city of eastern Japan. Edo Castle was the headquarters of Tokugawa Ieyasu before the Battle of Sekigahara and became the dominant city of Japan during the Edo period , being renamed Tokyo during the Meiji Restoration . Hikawa-jinja was designated as the chief Shinto shrine ( ichinomiya ) of the province; and there are many branch shrines. The former province gave its name to
20-584: The zones of Higashi Hongo Elementary School (東本郷小学校), Kamihashi Elementary School ( 神橋小学校 ) and Shirahata Elementary School ( 白幡小学校 ), not in Kohoku-ku, include portions of Kohoku-ku. An airport limousine bus service operates between Shin-Yokohama Prince Hotel and Shin-Yokohama Station and Narita Airport . Musashi Province Musashi Province ( 武蔵国 , Musashi-no-kuni ) was a province of Japan , which today comprises Tokyo Metropolis , most of Saitama Prefecture and part of Kanagawa Prefecture . It
25-513: Was sometimes called Bushū ( 武州 ) . The province encompassed Kawasaki and Yokohama . Musashi bordered on Kai , Kōzuke , Sagami , Shimōsa , and Shimotsuke Provinces . Musashi was the largest province in the Kantō region . Musashi had its ancient capital in modern Fuchū, Tokyo , and its provincial temple in what is now Kokubunji, Tokyo . By the Sengoku period , the main city was Edo , which became
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