was a

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located in Shida District,

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. Okabe developed in the

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Okabe-juku was the twenty-first of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in what is now the city of Fujieda, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Between Okabe-juku and the preceding post station of Mariko-juku runs Route 1, which was part of ...

, a post-town on the Tōkaidō. As of 2003, the town had an estimated

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of 12,839 and a

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of 240.93 persons per km². The total area was 53.29 km². The town was served by an interchange on

Japan National Route 1 is a major highway on the island of Honshū in Japan. It connects Chūō, Tokyo in the Kantō region with the city of Osaka, Osaka Prefecture in the Kansai region, passing through the Chūbu region en route. It follows the old Tōkaidō we ...

, but had no train service. On January 1, 2009, Okabe was merged into the expanded city of Fujieda and thus no longer exists as an independent

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. Shida District was dissolved as a result of the merger.

References

Populated places disestablished in 2009 Dissolved municipalities of Shizuoka Prefecture Fujieda, Shizuoka {{Shizuoka-geo-stub