Totsuka-ku, Yokohama
Totsuka
戸塚区 | |
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Totsuka Ward | |
Sakura | |
Address | 16-17 Totsuka-chō, Totsuka-ku Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 244-0003 |
Website | Totsuka Ward Office |
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
After the
Economy
Totsuka Ward is largely a regional commercial center and
Transportation
Railroads
- JR East - Tōkaidō Main Line
- Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
- Blue Line
Bus
- Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu / Yokohama Kanako Bus / Fujisawa Kanako Bus
- Yokohama Municipal Bus
- Sagami Railway Bus
- Enoden Bus
Highways
National Highways
- bypass routeof Route 1)
- Route 1
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:
- Meiji Gakuin University
- Yokohama College of Pharmacy
- Kihara Institute for Biological Research (Yokohama City University)
- Shōnan University of Medical Sciences
Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education operates prefectural senior high schools:
Yokohama Municipal Board of Education 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]
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
- Tomoyoshi Ono, professional football player
- Shunsuke Nakamura, professional football player
- Takeshi Mizuuchi, professional football player
- Wataru Endo, professional football player
- Ken Takahashi, professional baseball player
- Naomi Hosokawa, actress
- Shin'ichiro Sakurai, engineer and car designer
References
- Kato, Yuzo. Yokohama Past and Present. Yokohama City University (1990).
- ^ "平成22年工業統計調査結果" (PDF). Retrieved January 14, 2013.
- Koito Industries. Retrieved on February 15, 2010.
- ^ "R04-02-90_totsuka.xlsx". City of Yokohama. Retrieved 2022-11-05. - From this link
- ^ "緑園義務教育学校の新設について" (in Japanese). City of Yokohama. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
- ^ "R04-01-90_totsuka.xlsx". City of Yokohama. Retrieved 2022-11-05. - From this link
- ^ "Home" (in Japanese). Matano Elementary School. Retrieved 2022-11-06.
- ^ "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.
External links
- [permanent dead link] Ward Office
- City of Yokohama statistics
- Geographic data related to Totsuka-ku, Yokohama at OpenStreetMap