was a

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located in eastern

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 ...

. On November 1, 1966, Yoshiwara was merged with the city of Fuji. During the

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, Yoshiwara was a

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known as

Yoshiwara-juku was the fourteenth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in the present-day city of Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The Yoshiwara-juku Festival is held each year in October and November in Fuji, showing visitors the are ...

on the

Tōkaidō (road) The , which roughly means "eastern sea route," was the most important of the Five Routes of the Edo period in Japan, connecting Kyoto to Edo (modern-day Tokyo). Unlike the inland and less heavily travelled Nakasendō, the Tōkaidō travelled al ...

. At the time of its merger, the town had an estimated

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of 90,224 and a

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of 516.86 persons per km². The total area was 174.56 km². The town was served by both the

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and the

Gakunan Railway The is Japanese railway line between and , all within the industrial area of Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture. The line does not have any official name. This is the only railway line operates. The operator company was established on April 1, 2013 a ...

History

*April 1, 1889 – Due to the municipal status enforcement, Yoshiwara-juku, Fuji District becomes Yoshiwara Town. *April 1, 1940 – The village of Shimada (島田村) merged into the city of Yoshiwara *April 3, 1941 – The village of Denbō (伝法村) merged into the city of Yoshiwara *June 14, 1942 – Imaizumi Village (今泉村) merged into Yoshiwara. *April 1, 1948 – The town of Yoshiwara becomes the city of Yoshiwara. *February 11, 1955 – The city merged with the villages of Motoyoshiwara (元吉原村), Sudo (須津村), Yoshinaga (吉永村), and Harada (原田村) to form the city of Yoshiwara. *April 1, 1955 – Ōbuchi Village (大淵村) merged into the city of Yoshiwara. *April 1, 1956 – Funazu, Nishifunazu, and Sakai neighborhoods in the village of Hara in Suntō District merge into the city of Yoshiwara. *November 1, 1966 – The city merged with the city of Fuji and the town of Takaoka (鷹岡町) to form the city of Fuji.

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Yoshiwara was a famous (red-light district) in Edo, present-day Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1617, Yoshiwara was one of three licensed and well-known red-light districts created during the early 17th century by the Tokugawa shogunate, alongside Shima ...

Fuji, Shizuoka {{Shizuoka-geo-stub

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