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Kawagoe Juvenile Prison
Kawagoe may refer to: Places * Kawagoe, Saitama, a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan * Kawagoe, Mie, a town in Mie Prefecture, Japan * Kawagoe Domain, a former domain of Japan Other uses * Kawagoe (surname) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawagoe, Saitama
is a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 353,214 in 162,210 households and a population density of 3200 persons per km². The total area of the city is . The city is known locally as after the old name for Tokyo, due to its many historic buildings. Geography Located in the Musashino Terrace of central Saitama Prefecture, both the Arakawa and the Iruma Rivers flow through the city, which is approximately 30 kilometers from downtown Tokyo. The city area is approximately 16.3 km east–west and approximately 13.8 km north–south. The altitude is 18.5 meters above sea level in Motomachi, the highest at the southern end of the city is 50.7 meters, the lowest in the eastern part is 6.9 meters. Surrounding municipalities Saitama Prefecture * Ageo * Saitama * Sakado * Tsurugashima * Tokorozawa * Hidaka * Fujimi * Fujimino * Miyoshi * Kawajima * Sayama Climate Kawagoe has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawagoe, Mie
260px, downtown Kawagoe is a town located in Mie Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 15,409 in 7021 households and a population density of 1800 persons per km². The total area of the town was . Geography Kawagoe is located in northeastern Mie Prefecture, in the lowlands bordering on Ise Bay. Parts of the municipality are polders, at (or near) sealevel. Neighboring municipalities Mie Prefecture *Yokkaichi *Asahi *Kuwana Climate Kawagoe has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Kawagoe is 14.9 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1656 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.6 °C, and lowest in January, at around 3.5 °C. Demographics Per Japanese census data, the population of Kawagoe has increased steadily over the past 30 years. History The area of pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawagoe Domain
Kawagoe Castle daimyō residence, administrative headquarters of Kawagoe Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. It is located in Musashi Province, Honshū. The domain was centered at Kawagoe Castle, located in what is the city of Kawagoe in Saitama Prefecture. History The domain had its beginning in 1590, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeated the later Hōjō clan in the Siege of Odawara. Hideyoshi awarded vast Hōjō holdings to Tokugawa Ieyasu, who enfeoffed Sakai Shigetada as ''daimyō'' of Kawagoe with a assessed '' kokudaka'' of 10,000 '' koku''. Shigetada was transferred in 1601, and the next daimyō was appointed in 1609. Afterwards, the domain was reassigned every couple of generations to a large number of fudai daimyō clans, spending the longest time under the control of a branch of the Echizen Matsudaira clan (1767–1867) with a rating of 170,000 ''koku''. The final ''daimyō'' of Kawagoe, Matsudaira Yasutoshi, served as domain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
