Sakae-ku, Yokohama

Sakae-ku (栄区) is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 124,845 and a density of 6,750 persons per km². The total area was 18.55 km².

Geography

Sakae Ward is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture, and on the southwestern borders of the city of Yokohama. The area is largely flatland, with scattered small hills.

Surrounding municipalities

• Isogo Ward
• Kanazawa Ward
• Totsuka Ward
• Konan Ward
• Kamakura, Kanagawa

History

The area around present-day Sakae Ward has been inhabited continuously for thousands of years. Archaeologists have found stone tools from the

After the Meiji Restoration, Sakae became part of the new Kanagawa Prefecture in 1868. In the cadastral reform of April 1, 1889, the area was divided into Hongo, Sakae and Toyota villages under Kamakura District. In 1938, the Imperial Japanese Navy established a large fuel depot in former Hongo Village. On April 1, 1939, Sakae was annexed by the neighboring city of Yokohama, becoming part of Totsuka Ward. In the post-war period, parts of Sakae were used as a residential area for the American occupation forces. All American facilities were returned to Japan by 1967. In a major administrative reorganization of October 1, 1969, Totsuka-ku was divided, and Sakae emerged as an independent ward within the city of Yokohama.

Economy

Sakae Ward is largely a regional commercial center and

• JR East – Negishi Line
  • Hongōdai
• The Yokosuka Line and Tōkaidō Main Line pass through Sakae Ward, but without any stations.

Highways

• Ken-Ō Expressway

Education

Prefectural senior high schools are operated by the Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education:

• Hakuyō High School [ja]
• Kanai High School [ja]
• Yokohama-Sakae High School [ja]

Private secondary school:

• Yamate Gakuin Junior & Senior High School [ja]

Yokohama Municipal Board of Education [ja] operates municipal elementary schools and junior high schools.

Junior high schools:^[1]

Elementary schools:^[2]

Additionally, Hino Minami Elementary School (日野南小学校) and Konandaidaini (No. 2) Elementary School (港南台第二小学校), outside of Sakae-ku, have attendance zones including parts of Sakae-ku.^[3]

Noshichiri Elementary School merged with Shodo Elementary School in March 2006.^[4]

Notable people from Sakae Ward

• Shigetoshi Hasebe, former professional soccer player, current manager of Avispa Fukuoka
• Ryuichi Kawahara, (former baseball player, belonged to the
  Yokohama BayStars
  )
• Hironori Kusano, singer
• Daisuke Maki, (singer, member of EXILE )
• Kozo Yuki, professional soccer player
• Yasuto Wakizaka, professional soccer player

References

• Kato, Yuzo. Yokohama Past and Present. Yokohama City University (1990).

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External links

• Sakae Ward Office
• City of Yokohama statistics
• Geographic data related to Sakae-ku, Yokohama at OpenStreetMap