Totsuka-ku, Yokohama

Coordinates: 35°23′47″N 139°31′57″E / 35.39639°N 139.53250°E / 35.39639; 139.53250
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Totsuka
戸塚区
Totsuka Ward
Sakura
Address16-17 Totsuka-chō, Totsuka-ku Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken
244-0003
WebsiteTotsuka Ward Office
Totsuka Ward Office building completed in 2013
Former Totsuka Ward Office at 157-3 Totsuka-chō

Totsuka-ku (戸塚区) 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 273,418 and a density of 7,640 persons per km2. The total area was 35.70 km2.

Geography

Totsuka Ward is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture, and in the center-western area of the city of Yokohama. The area is largely flatland, with scattered small hills. The Kashio River passes through the Ward.

Surrounding municipalities

History

The area around present-day Totsuka Ward has been inhabited for thousands of years. Archaeologists have found ceramic shards from the

tenryō territory controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate, but administered through various hatamoto. The area prospered in the Edo period as Totsuka-juku, a post station on the Tōkaidō connecting Edo with Kyoto
.

After the

Meiji period the area prospered as a center of meat production to supply the foreign population of nearby Yokohama. In April 1939, Totsuka and neighboring villages were annexed by the neighboring city of Yokohama, becoming Totsuka Ward. In 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy established a medical school and large scale hospital facilities in Totsuka. In 1966, Seya Ward was separated from Totsuka. In a major administrative reorganization of 1986, Izumi Ward and Sakae Ward
were also separated from Totsuka.

Economy

Koito Industries
headquarters

Totsuka Ward is largely a regional commercial center and

bedroom community for central Yokohama and Tokyo. Totsuka retains a relatively strong industrial base. In 2010, 160 factories in the ward employed 12,010 employees and their shipment amounted to 399 billion yen.[1]
There are major factories operated by ]

Transportation

Railroads

Bus

Highways

National Highways

Prefecture roads

  • Kanagawa Prefectural Route 23
  • Kanagawa Prefectural Route 203
  • Kanagawa Prefectural Route 218
  • Kanagawa Prefectural Route 401
  • Kanagawa Prefectural Route 402
  • Kanagawa Prefectural Route 403

City roads

  • Main Local Road No. 17 Loop Line 2
  • Loop Line 3
  • Main Local Road No. 18 Loop Line 4
  • Totsuka-Ōfuna Line
  • Maioka-Kamigō Line

Education

Colleges and Universities:

Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education operates prefectural senior high schools:

Yokohama Municipal Board of Education [ja] operates the following municipal high school:

Private secondary school:

The municipal board of education operates municipal elementary schools and junior high schools.

Junior high schools:[3]

  • Akiba (秋葉)
  • Fukaya (深谷)
  • Gumisawa (汲沢)
  • Hirado (平戸)
  • Maioka (舞岡)
  • Minami-totsuka (南戸塚)
  • Nase (名瀬)
  • Sakaigi (境木)
  • Taishō (大正)
  • Totsuka (戸塚)
  • Toyoda (豊田)

Additionally, Ryokuen Gakuen (緑園学園), a combined elementary and junior high school outside of Totsuka-ku, has an attendance zone including parts of Totsuka-ku.[4]

Elementary schools:[5]

  • Akiba (秋葉)
  • Fukaya (深谷)
  • Gumisawa (汲沢)
  • Higashi-gumisawa (東汲沢)
  • Higashi-matano (東俣野)
  • Higashi-shinano (東品濃)
  • Higashi-totsuka (東戸塚)
  • Hirado (平戸)
  • Hiradodai (平戸台)
  • Kamiyabe (上矢部)
  • Kashio (柏尾)
  • Kawakami (川上)
  • Kawakami-kita (川上北)
  • Kosuzume (小雀)
  • Kurata (倉田)
  • Maioka (舞岡)
  • Minami-maioka (南舞岡)
  • Minami-totsuka (南戸塚)
  • Nase (名瀬)
  • Sakaigi (境木)
  • Shimogō (下郷)
  • Shinano (品濃)
  • Taishō (大正)
  • Torigaoka (鳥が丘)
  • Totsuka (戸塚)
  • Yabe (矢部)
  • Yokohama Fukayadai (横浜深谷台)

Former elementary schools:

  • Matano (俣野) - Merged into Fukayadai Elementary (深谷台小学校) in 2017 to form Yokohama Fukayadai Elementary.[6]

Additionally, Kosugaya Elementary School (小菅ケ谷小学校), Kuzuno Elementary School (葛野小学校), Mutsukawa Nishi Elementary School (六つ川西小学校), and Toyoda Elementary School (豊田小学校), outside of Totsuka-ku, have attendance zones including parts of Totsuka-ku.[7]

Noted people from Totsuka

References

  • Kato, Yuzo. Yokohama Past and Present. Yokohama City University (1990).
  1. ^ "平成22年工業統計調査結果" (PDF). Retrieved January 14, 2013.
  2. Koito Industries
    . Retrieved on February 15, 2010.
  3. ^ "R04-02-90_totsuka.xlsx". City of Yokohama. Retrieved 2022-11-05. - From this link
  4. ^ "緑園義務教育学校の新設について" (in Japanese). City of Yokohama. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  5. ^ "R04-01-90_totsuka.xlsx". City of Yokohama. Retrieved 2022-11-05. - From this link
  6. ^ "Home" (in Japanese). Matano Elementary School. Retrieved 2022-11-06.
  7. ^ "小・中学校等の通学区域一覧(通学規則 別表)". City of Yokohama. Retrieved 2022-11-04.

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