is one of three
ward
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s of
Shizuoka, Shizuoka
is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and the prefecture's second-largest city in both population and area. It has been populated since prehistoric times. the city had an estimated population of 690,881 in 106,087 households, and ...
,
Japan
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, located in the southern part of the city. The north east of Suruga-ku faces
Aoi-ku; the north west faces
Shimizu-ku; the south west faces
Yaizu city and south east faces
Suruga Bay
Suruga Bay (駿河湾, ''Suruga-wan'') is a bay on the Pacific coast of Honshū in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is situated north of a straight line from Omaezaki Point to Irōzaki Point at the tip of the Izu Peninsula and surrounded by Honshū ...
.
Suruga-ku was created on April 1, 2005 when Shizuoka became a
city designated by government ordinance
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(a "designated city"). It consists of the area of Shizuoka prior to its merger with
Shimizu, south of 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 ...
rail tracks. As of 1 December 2019, Suruga-ku had a
population
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of 210,684, with a land area of 73.06 km² and a population density of 2,884 persons per km².
Education
It has a
North Korean school, Shizuoka Korean Elementary and Junior High School (
静岡朝鮮初中級学校).
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Wards of Shizuoka (city)
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