Kashiwa

Coordinates: 35°52′3.3″N 139°58′32.7″E / 35.867583°N 139.975750°E / 35.867583; 139.975750
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Kashiwa
柏市
Core city
Park City Kashiwanoha Campus Kashiwa Station Kashiwa No.2 Shopping Arcade Kashiwa Stadium LaLaport Kashiwanoha Akebonoyama Park Kashiwanoha-campus Station
Park City Kashiwanoha Campus
Kashiwa Station Kashiwa No.2 Shopping Arcade
Kashiwa Stadium LaLaport Kashiwanoha
Akebonoyama Park Kashiwanoha-campus Station
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• BirdAzure-winged magpie
Phone number04-7167-1111
Address5-10-1 Kashiwa, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba-ken 270-8505
WebsiteOfficial website
Kashiwa City Hall

Kashiwa (柏市, Kashiwa-shi) is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.[1] As of 2021, the city had an estimated population of 433,436 in 194,216 households and a population density of 3800 persons per km2.[2] The total area of the city is 114.72 square kilometres (44.29 sq mi).

The name of the city is written with a single kanji character: 柏, a reference to Quercus dentata, commonly known in English as the Japanese emperor oak or daimyo oak.

Geography

Kashiwa is located on the

Kanto Plain
, the city is flat, with an elevation of between 5 and 32 meters above sea level.

Neighboring municipalities

Climate

Kashiwa has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Kashiwa is 14.7 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1358 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.5 °C, and lowest in January, at around 3.9 °C.[4]

Demographics

Per Japanese census data,[5] the population of Kashiwa has been increasing rapidly over the past 70 years.

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1950 49,159—    
1960 75,594+53.8%
1970 169,115+123.7%
1980 272,904+61.4%
1990 347,002+27.2%
2000 373,778+7.7%
2010 404,012+8.1%
2020 426,468+5.6%

History

Early history

Kashiwa has been settled since ancient times, and was historically part of

war horses for the army of the shogunate. The Tokugawa shogunate put much effort into draining the marshy areas of Lake Tega (Lake Teganuma) during the Edo period as part of large-scale land reclamation carried out across Japan.[3] Kashiwa was developed as a post station on the Mito Kaidō, which connected the capitol at Edo with Mito in present-day Ibaraki Prefecture
.

Modern history

After the

Mukden Incident in 1931.[3] The Imperial Japanese Army established Kashiwa Air Field and Kashiwa Military Hospital, and Kashiwa became a military town. The air field was abandoned after the end of World War II, but the hospital continues to exist as the Kashiwa Public Hospital.[1]

On September 1, 1954, Kashiwa absorbed neighboring Kogane Town and Tsuchi and Tanaka villages to form the new city of Tokatsu (東葛市, Tokatsu-shi). However, many politicians in Kogane Town were vehemently opposed to the merger, and forced its dissolution on October 15, 1954, with most of former Kogane Town merging with

new town
developments greatly expanded the city's population.

On April 1, 2008, Kashiwa was designated as a core city, with increased local autonomy. In August 2010, the city population exceeded 400,000 people.

Government

Kashiwa has a

Diet of Japan
.

Economy

Kashiwa is a regional commercial center and a

bedroom community for nearby Chiba and Tokyo.[1] Due to its good transportation connection with Tokyo, an estimated 42.3% of the working population (2015 census) commute to Tokyo for work. The city has a mixed industrial base, with food processing industries forming an important portion of the economy. Nikka Whisky Distilling, Asahi Soft Drinks, and Ito Ham all have production facilities in Kashiwa. There is some residual agriculture of turnips, onions and spinach.[1]

Education

Universities

Primary and secondary education

  • Kashiwa has 42 public elementary schools and 20 public middle schools operated by the city government, and three private combined middle/high schools and one combined middle/high school operated by the Chiba Prefectural Board of Education. The city has eight public high schools operated by the Chiba Prefectural Board of Education and two private high schools. The prefecture also operates one special education school for the handicapped.

Transportation

Railway

JR East – Jōban Line

Tobu Urban Park Line

Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company - Tsukuba Express

Highways

Sports

Kashiwa is home to the professional

football team Kashiwa Reysol and the women's basketball team Eneos Sunflowers
.

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Japan

Kashiwa is twinned with:[6]

Notable people

References

  1. ^
    OCLC 56431036. Archived from the original
    on August 25, 2007. Retrieved 2012-07-17.
  2. ^ "Kashiwa city official statistics" (in Japanese). Japan.
  3. ^
    OCLC 683276033. Archived from the original
    on August 25, 2007. Retrieved 2012-07-17.
  4. ^ Kashiwa climate data
  5. ^ Kashiwa population statistics
  6. ^ "姉妹友好都市・ふるさと交流都市". city.kashiwa.lg.jp (in Japanese). Kashiwa. Retrieved 2020-04-10.

External links

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