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48-459: Omaezaki City lies approximately 80 miles (130 km) south of Shizuoka City at the tip of a peninsula of the same name, stretching east into the Pacific Ocean . The majority of the city consists of gentle hills and valleys with some steep cliffs on the peninsula's east coast. Like much of Japan, Shizuoka Prefecture is an earthquake zone, and small tremors frequently occur in the area. Omaezaki

96-478: A mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 16 members. Omaezaki has a long history of commercial fishing and of green tea cultivation and these continue to play a central role in the local economy. More recently, the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant situated in the former town of Hamaoka brought investment to the city; however, operations at

144-492: A GDP of US$ 45.8 billion as of 2010. Shizuoka's GDP per capita (PPP) 2014 was US$ 41,472. Fuji Dream Airlines is headquartered in Aoi-ku, Shizuoka . Shimizu Port boasts the largest haul of tuna in all Japan. Kanbara Harbour enjoys a prosperous haul of sakura ebi , and Mochimune Harbour enjoys a prosperous haul of shirasu sardines. Abekawa Mochi is a type of rice cake (or mochi ) made with kinako soy flour that

192-647: A modal shift of freight trucks from road to sea, thereby contributing to decreasing congestion and pollution on roads. The Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) was founded in 1995 by the Shizuoka Prefecture. The building was designed by architect Arata Isozaki and was opened in 1999 for the second Theatre Olympics . The arts center is the first publicly funded cultural organization in Japan to have its own troupe of actors and other staff to manage its own venues and facilities for artistic purposes. Suzuki Tadashi

240-448: A popular surfing and bodyboarding destination. This is especially true during the summer months, although surfers and bodyboarders can be seen all year round at Omaezaki Long Beach ( 御前崎ロングビーチ ) . The city also has a beach as part of Omaezaki Marine Park ( 御前崎マリーンパーク ) which is a popular destination during the region's hot and humid summer months. Shizuoka, Shizuoka Shizuoka ( 静岡市 , Shizuoka-shi , [ɕizɯꜜoka] )

288-412: A well-known local landmark. Due to the active seismic nature of the region, the nuclear power station has been built to a high level of safety, and its operator, Chubu Electric Power , claims that it can withstand strong tremors. As a result of the strong coastal winds, Omaezaki offers some of the best windsurfing in Japan. As well as being Japan's most famous windsurfing spot, Omaezaki is renowned as

336-785: Is Shizuoka Airport , situated between Makinohara and Shimada . Shizuoka lies on the Tōkaidō Main Line , the JR Central main railway line from Tokyo to Osaka, and is well-served by the Tōkaidō Shinkansen , limited express and regional trains. The central station of Shizuoka is in the city centre. Shizuoka also has an LRT line, the Shizuoka Railway , administered by the Shizuoka Railway Co., Ltd. at Shizuoka Station . The under construction Chūō Shinkansen will pass through

384-508: Is 16.7 °C (62.1 °F). The average annual rainfall is 2,094.8 mm (82.47 in) with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.7 °C (80.1 °F), and lowest in January, at around 6.9 °C (44.4 °F). Per Japanese census data, the population of Omaezaki has fairly constant over the past 50 years. With the establishment of

432-423: Is a specialty of Shizuoka. Shizuoka has a long history of being involved in the craft industries going back over 400 years ago, using trees, including hinoki cypress. The model industry goes back to the late 1920s when wood was used to produce model toys, using sashimono woodworking joinery techniques, purely for educational purposes. Craftsmen later moved on to lighter woods including balsa , but following

480-524: Is a window to the world". The festival includes stage plays, puppetry, film, dance and other performance arts. Shizuoka Prefecture Shizuoka Prefecture ( 静岡県 , Shizuoka-ken ) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu . As of September 2023, Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,555,818 and has a geographic area of 7,777.42 km (3,002.88 sq mi). Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to

528-415: Is about balanced, with over 250,000 TEU in each direction, with auto parts and chemicals amongst the main cargo types. Major international container lines provide weekly services on major trade routes, including North America, Europe and Asia, with about 110 calls per months on 28 trade routes. The port of Shimizu also includes a terminal to receive LNG tankers and store imported Liquefied natural gas; it

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576-514: Is also in an area at risk from tsunami . Omaezaki has a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen climate classification Cfa ). Due to its location, Omaezaki experiences strong coastal winds between October and April. The Japanese rainy season also affects Omaezaki, with typhoons liable to hit the city between July and September. During summer, the region is cooler than the majority of inland Shizuoka Prefecture.The average annual temperature in Omaezaki

624-475: Is considered to be one of Japan's largest lakes. Mount Fuji , the tallest volcano in Japan and cultural icon of the country, is partially located in Shizuoka Prefecture on the border with Yamanashi Prefecture. Shizuoka Prefecture has a significant motoring heritage as the founding location of Honda , Suzuki , and Yamaha , and is home to the Fuji International Speedway . Shizuoka Prefecture

672-458: Is now the city of Shizuoka has been inhabited since prehistoric times. Numerous kofun have been found within the city limits, and the Toro archaeological site indicates that a major Yayoi period (circa 400 BC–300 AD) settlement existed in what is now part of the central city area. Suruga was established as a province of Japan in the early Nara period . At some point between the year 701 and 710,

720-407: Is operated by Shimizu LNG, a subsidiary of Shizuoka Gas (Japan is the world's largest importer of LNG ). The Port of Shimizu is also connected to other Japan ports. In particular, it is served by a Roll-on/roll-off service serving the port of Ōita , on the north-east coast of the southern island of Kyushu . This service, which sails three times a week and has a transit time of 20 hours, has enabled

768-504: Is part of the Japanese snow country , where there are ski areas. On 22 December 2006, colours and logos were established for each of the wards. As of August 2019, the city had an estimated population of 704,989 in 286,013 households and a population density of 507 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,310/sq mi). Per Japanese census data, the population of Shizuoka has been declining slowly since 1990. The area that

816-531: Is rarely below 28 °F or above 93 °F. The summers in Shizuoka are warm, oppressive, and mostly cloudy; the winters are very cold, windy, and mostly clear. On 15 March 2011, Shizuoka Prefecture was hit with a magnitude 6.2 earthquake approximately 42 km (26 mi) NNE of Shizuoka City . It is said, that throughout history, Shizuoka area has experienced a large earthquake every 100 to 150 years. 3,635,220 people live in Shizuoka Prefecture, according to

864-475: Is the 5th largest city in Japan in terms of geographic area after Takayama, Hamamatsu , Nikkō , and Kitami . It is also the 2nd largest city in Shizuoka Prefecture in terms of both geographic area and population after Hamamatsu , but ranks higher as an Urban Employment Area , and leads as a metropolitan area and business region. The fan-like shape of the Shizuoka Plain and Miho Peninsula were formed over

912-516: Is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture , Japan , and the prefecture's second-largest city in both population and area. It has been populated since prehistoric times. As of 1 September 2023, the city had an estimated population of 677,867 in 106,087 households, and a population density of 480 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,200/sq mi). The city's name is made up of two kanji , 静 shizu , meaning "still" or "calm"; and 岡 oka , meaning "hill(s)". In 1869, Shizuoka Domain

960-609: The Izu Peninsula , a popular resort area pointing south into the Pacific. As of April 2012, 11% of the total land area of the prefecture was designated as natural parks , namely the Fuji-Hakone-Izu and Minami Alps National Parks; Tenryū-Okumikawa Quasi-National Park ; and four Prefectural Natural Parks. In Shizuoka prefecture, the temperature , over the course of the year, typically varies from 34 °F to 87 °F and

1008-575: The Osaka Bay ports of Osaka and Kobe ( Hanshin ports). The Port of Shimizu has a water depth of about 12 metres (39 ft); its attractiveness has been enhanced over the past years by the construction of new road and rail links which contribute to expanding its commercial hinterland. In tonnage, imports (about 6.5 million tonnes (6,400,000 long tons; 7,200,000 short tons)) are close to twice export volumes, but in trade value exports are twice as valuable as imports. The Port of Shimizu container traffic

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1056-622: The Tōkaidō Corridor , between Suruga Bay to the south and the Minami Alps in the north. Shizuoka had the largest area of any municipality in Japan after merging with Shimizu City in April 2003, until February 2005, when Takayama in Gifu Prefecture superseded it by merging with nine surrounding municipalities. The total area of the city is 1,411.90 km (545.14 sq mi). Shizuoka

1104-413: The abolition of the han system in 1871, which was expanded in 1876 through merger with the former Hamamatsu Prefecture and western portions of Ashigaru Prefecture in 1876. Shizuoka Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line was opened on 1 February 1889. The same day, a fire burned down most of downtown Shizuoka. The modern city was founded on 1 April 1889. At the time, the population was 37,681, and Shizuoka

1152-694: The 2000s combined the 74 remaining municipalities in the year 2000 into the current 35 by 2010. Home to a shogun, cherry shrimp, and Japan's green tea heartland. Situated along Suruga Bay between Tokyo and Nagoya on the historic Tokaido route, the Pacific coast city of Shizuoka is famed for supplying most of Japan's tea and maguro tuna. Shizuoka-based companies are world leaders in several major industrial sectors. Honda , Yamaha , and Suzuki all have their roots in Shizuoka prefecture and are still manufacturing here. Thanks to this, Shizuoka pref. accounts for 28% of Japanese motorcycle exports . Yamaha and Kawai are both global piano brands . Yamaha has

1200-453: The 2020 census. Since 2010, Shizuoka has consisted of 35 municipalities : 23 cities and 12 towns . After the introduction of modern municipalities in 1889, Shizuoka consisted of 337 municipalities: 1 (by definition: district-independent) city and 23 districts with 31 towns and 305 villages . The Great Shōwa mergers of the 1950s reduced the total from 281 to 97 between 1953 and 1960, including 18 cities by then. The Great Heisei mergers of

1248-545: The Toyotomi were defeated in the Battle of Sekigahara , Ieyasu recovered Sunpu, reassigning it to his own retainer, Naitō Nobunari in 1601. This marked the start of Sunpu Domain . In April 1606, Ieyasu officially retired from the post of shōgun , and retired to Sunpu, where he established a secondary court, from which he could influence Shōgun Tokugawa Hidetada from behind the scenes. Subsequently, aside for brief periods, Sunpu

1296-499: The ages by the fast-flowing Abe River , carrying along collapsed sand and earth. These areas form the foundations of the city today. The isolated Mount Kunō separates the Suruga coastline from the Shimizu coastline. On the south-central Pacific coast Shizuoka has a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen climate classification Cfa ), which is hot and humid in the summer, and rarely snows in

1344-712: The city continued to expand through the 1950s and 1960s through merger with outlying towns and villages. On 1 October 1964, the Tōkaidō Shinkansen began services to Shizuoka, and on 25 April 1969 the city was connected to the Tōmei Expressway . On 7 July 1974, the Abe River flooded, and landslides occurred during heavy rains, killing 23 people. On 16 August 1980, a major gas leak in an underground shopping center near Shizuoka Station resulted in an explosion, killing 15 people and seriously injuring 233 others. The Shizuoka City Hall moved to new premises in 1986. On 1 April 1992, Shizuoka

1392-567: The city government, and one public high school operated by the Shizuoka Prefectural Board of Education. There is also one vocational training school. Omaezaki does not have any passenger rail services. Omaezaki City has long been famed for its Omaesaki Lighthouse and its extensive green tea fields. In recent years the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant, the visitor centre of which also hosts an Omnimax Cinema , has become

1440-456: The city is divided between Shizuoka 1st district and Shizuoka 4th district in the lower house of the Japanese Diet . Shizuoka has twin and friendship relationships with several cities. Shizuoka has 35,579 businesses as of 2012. Employment by industry: Agriculture 0.1%, Manufacturing: 26.9%, Service 73.0% Greater Shizuoka, Shizuoka Metropolitan Employment Area , has

1488-475: The city was struck by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake , resulting in much damage. Although soon rebuilt, a large fire in 1940 again destroyed much of the center of the city. During World War II , Shizuoka lacked targets of major military significance, and was initially only lightly bombed during several American air raids . However, in a major firebombing raid of 19 June 1945 , the city suffered an extreme amount of damage with high civilian casualties. The area of

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1536-557: The city. The city hosts the long-running Shizuoka Hobby Show annually in May at Twin Messe Shizuoka . The Shizuoka Shimbun is the area's primary newspaper. The book trilogy “Paper Gods” by Amanda Sun takes place in this city. Shizuoka Cable Television (Dream Wave Shizuoka) Shizuoka has 91 elementary schools, 57 middle schools and 27 high schools. In addition there are 29 vocations schools and 12 public libraries. The nearest airport

1584-649: The direct supervision of the shogunate. With the creation of the Shizuoka han from the Sunpu Domain in 1868, it once again became the residence of the Tokugawa family. Shizuoka Prefecture is an elongated region following the coast of the Pacific Ocean at the Suruga Bay . In the west, the prefecture extends deep into the Japan Alps . In the east, it becomes a narrower coast bounded in the north by Mount Fuji , until it comes to

1632-419: The east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northeast, Nagano Prefecture to the north, and Aichi Prefecture to the west. Shizuoka is the capital and Hamamatsu is the largest city in Shizuoka Prefecture, with other major cities including Fuji , Numazu , and Iwata . Shizuoka Prefecture is located on Japan's Pacific Ocean coast and features Suruga Bay formed by the Izu Peninsula , and Lake Hamana which

1680-554: The modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889, the village of Omaezaki was created within Haibara District of Shizuoka Prefecture. It was elevated to town status on March 31, 1955. On April 1, 2004, Omaezaki merged with the town of Hamaoka (formerly of the now-defunct Ogasa District ) to form the city of Omaezaki. During the 2002 FIFA World Cup , the England national football team was based in former Hamaoka Town. Omaezaki has

1728-545: The mountainous area in the northern tip of the city. However, the line is not planned to have a station in Shizuoka. The Port of Shimizu-ku, in Shimizu City (now Shimizu Ward ), is a long established mid-size sea port, catering to container ships, dry bulk ships and cruise ships. It is well located, being in between the two major port areas of Japan, i.e. the Tokyo Bay ports of Tokyo, Kawasaki and Yokohama ( Keihin ports) and

1776-469: The plant have been suspended from May 2011. Water sports account for a large number of visitors daily to the city, and during the summer months, tourism attracted by Omaezaki's beaches is an important part of the economy, and water sports made possible by strong coastal winds have become as much a part of Omaezaki's identity as that of a rural town. Omaezaki has five public elementary schools and two public middle schools and one high public school operated by

1824-713: The provincial capital was relocated from what is now Numazu , to a more central location on the banks of the Abe River at a location named Sunpu ( 駿府 ) (a contraction of "Suruga no Kokufu" ( 駿河の国府 ) ) or alternatively "Fuchū" ( 府中 ) . During the Muromachi period , Sunpu was the capital of the Imagawa clan . The Imagawa were defeated at the Battle of Okehazama , and Sunpu was subsequently ruled by Takeda Shingen , followed by Tokugawa Ieyasu . However, Toyotomi Hideyoshi relocated Ieyasu, and installed Nakamura Kazutada to rule Sunpu. After

1872-427: The war, with the importation of US built scale models, many companies either turned to plastic models to compete or went under. The town has since become internationally notable for its plastic scale model kits and is resident to long-established companies such as Aoshima , Fujimi , Hasegawa , and Tamiya . Another model brand, Bandai , produces its Gundam models exclusively at its Bandai Hobby Center plant in

1920-444: The winter. It is close to the warm Kuroshio Current and is wet even by Japanese standards with only slightly less precipitation than Kanazawa on the opposite side of Honshū, but it is paradoxically the sunniest of Japan's major cities owing to the absence of summer fog and its sheltered location from the northwesterly winds off the Sea of Japan . Further north, the mountainous Ikawa area

1968-614: Was tenryō (territory under direct administration by the Shogunate), ruled by the Sunpu jōdai ( 駿府城代 ) , an appointed official based in Sunpu. In 1869, after the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate , the former shogunal line, headed by Tokugawa Iesato was sent to Sunpu and assigned the short-lived Sunpu Domain . The same year, Sunpu was renamed "Shizuoka". Shizuoka Domain became Shizuoka Prefecture with

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2016-426: Was designated a core city by the central government, giving it increased autonomy. The 1 April 2003 merger with Shimizu City (current Shimizu Ward ) greatly expanded the area and population of Shizuoka, which then became a designated city on 1 April 2005, and was divided into three wards. Despite being somewhat geographically isolated from the rest of the city, the town of Kanbara (from Ihara District )

2064-510: Was established from the former Tōtōmi , Suruga and Izu provinces. The area was the home of the first Tokugawa shōgun . Tokugawa Ieyasu held the region until he conquered the lands of the Hōjō clan in the Kantō region and placed land under the stewardship of Toyotomi Hideyoshi . After becoming shōgun , Tokugawa took the land back for his family and put the area around modern-day Shizuoka City under

2112-457: Was first created out of the older Sunpu Domain , and that name was retained when the city was incorporated in 1885. In 2003, Shizuoka absorbed neighboring Shimizu City (now Shimizu Ward ) to create the new and expanded city of Shizuoka, briefly becoming the largest city by land area in Japan. In 2005, it became one of Japan's " designated cities ". Shizuoka City lies in central Shizuoka Prefecture , about halfway between Tokyo and Nagoya along

2160-533: Was formerly called the Shizuoka Spring Festival (2000-2010 ), being changed to "World Theater Festival Shizuoka under Mt. Fuji" in 2012 by the artistic director of the centre, Miyagi Satoshi. His intention was "to connect Shizuoka to the world through theater", to have performances from every corner of the world, for "people to see that the world isn't a set and finished quantity and there is still plenty of room for change. I wanted to communicate that theater

2208-527: Was merged into Shizuoka on 31 March 2006, becoming part of Shimizu-ku. On 1 November 2008, the town of Yui (also from Ihara District ) was also merged into Shimizu-ku, resulting in the dissolution of Ihara District. Shizuoka has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 48 members. The city contributes 13 members to the Shizuoka Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics,

2256-401: Was one of the first 31 cities established in Japan. An electric tram service began in 1911. In 1914, due to heavy rains caused by a typhoon , the Abe River flooded, inundating the downtown area. In the national census of 1920, the population of Shizuoka was 74,093. The area of the city continued to expand through the 1920s and 1930s through merger with outlying towns and villages. In 1935,

2304-492: Was the first Artistic Director , appointed in 1997 and staying in the position until March 2007, after which Miyagi Satoshi took up the appointment. SPAC has organised the World Theatre Festival Shizuoka each year since 2011, as well as creating its own theatre productions (some of which tour abroad), having students to learn at the center, and other theatrical activities. The World Theatre Festival Shizuoka

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