was a
town
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The word "town" shares an ori ...
located in
Hamana District,
Shizuoka Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,637,998 and has a geographic area of . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northea ...
,
Japan
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.
As of June 1, 2005, the town had an estimated
population
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of 11,872 and a
density
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of 2,564 persons per km². The total area was 4.63 km². The town was served by
Maisaka Station
is a railway station in Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, operated by the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Tōkai ).
Lines
Maisaka Station is served by the JR Tōkai Tōkaidō Main Line, and is located 267.5 kilometers from the ...
on the
Tōkaidō Main Line
The is a major Japanese railway line of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) network, connecting and stations. It is long, not counting its many freight feeder lines around the major cities. The high-speed Tōkaidō Shinkansen largely parallel ...
railway.
On July 1, 2005, Maisaka, along with the cities of
Tenryū and
Hamakita, the town of
Haruno (from
Shūchi District), the towns of
Hosoe,
Inasa and
Mikkabi (all from
Inasa District), the towns of
Misakubo and
Sakuma, the village of
Tatsuyama (all from
Iwata District), and the town of
Yūtō (also from
Hamana District), was merged into the expanded city of
Hamamatsu
is a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. the city had an estimated population of 791,707 in 340,591 households, making it the prefecture's largest city, and a population density of . The total area of the site was .
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, and is now part of
Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu City.
Maisaka was a fishing town on the
Pacific coast
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of Shizuoka Prefecture. Settled since prehistoric times (
Jōmon period
The is the time in Japanese history, traditionally dated between 6,000–300 BCE, during which Japan was inhabited by a diverse hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist population united through a common Jōmon culture, which reached a c ...
remains have been discovered within the borders of the town. During the
Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...
, the town prospered as
Maisaka-juku
was the thirtieth of the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō, fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō (road), Tōkaidō. It is located in the western portion of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. During the Edo period, the area ...
, a
post station on the
Tōkaidō highway connecting
Edo with
Kyoto
Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the ci ...
.
Dissolved municipalities of Shizuoka Prefecture
Hamamatsu
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