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Totsuka

戸塚区
Totsuka 戸塚区
Ward
	Totsuka Ward
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	Location of Totsuka in Kanagawa
	Totsuka
	Coordinates: 35°23′47″N 139°31′57″E / 35.39639°N 139.53250°E
Country	Japan
Region	Kantō
Prefecture	Kanagawa
City	Yokohama
Area
• Total	35.70 km2 (13.78 sq mi)
Population (September 2010)
• Total	274,783
• Density	7,697/km2 (19,940/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+9 (Japan Standard Time)
- Flower	Sakura
Address	16-17 Totsuka-chō, Totsuka-ku Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken; 244-0003
Website	Totsuka Ward Office

Former Totsuka Ward Office at 157-3 Totsuka-chō

Totsuka-ku (戸塚区) is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 273,418 and a density of 7,640 persons per km². The total area was 35.70 km².

Geography

Totsuka Ward is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture, and in the center-western area of the city of Yokohama. The area is largely flatland, with scattered small hills. The Kashio River passes through the Ward.

Surrounding municipalities

History

The area around present-day Totsuka Ward has been inhabited for thousands of years. Archaeologists have found ceramic shards from the Jōmon period at numerous locations in the area. There are numerous keyhole tombs from the Kofun period in Totsuka, including one on the grounds of Tomizuka Hachiman Shrine, from which the ward's name is derived. Under the Nara period Ritsuryō system, it became part of Kamakura District and Kōza District in Sagami Province. By the Heian period it was part of a shōen controlled by the Sudō clan, but came under the control of the Kamakura clan (of which Kamakura Gongorō Kagemasa was the most illustrious member) by the start of the Kamakura period. During the Kamakura period, it was largely farmland, supporting the population of nearby Kamakura; however by the Muromachi period it had become a contested territory divided between the Hatakeyama clan, Miura clan, Oba clan, and others until their territories were seized by the Later Hōjō clan from Odawara in the late Sengoku period. After the defeat of the Hōjō at the Battle of Odawara, the territory came under the control of Tokugawa Ieyasu. It was administered as tenryō territory controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate, but administered through various hatamoto. The area prospered in the Edo period as Totsuka-juku, a post station on the Tōkaidō connecting Edo with Kyoto.

After the Meiji Restoration, the area was transferred to the new Kanagawa Prefecture, with Totsuka-shuku becoming the capital of the Kamakura District. In the cadastral reform of April 1, 1889, Totsuka Town was established; two years after the completion of Totsuka Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line railway connecting Tokyo with Osaka. During the Meiji period the area prospered as a center of meat production to supply the foreign population of nearby Yokohama. In April 1939, Totsuka and neighboring villages were annexed by the neighboring city of Yokohama, becoming Totsuka Ward. In 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy established a medical school and large scale hospital facilities in Totsuka. In 1966, Seya Ward was separated from Totsuka. In a major administrative reorganization of 1986, Izumi Ward and Sakae Ward were also separated from Totsuka.

Economy

Totsuka Ward is largely a regional commercial center and bedroom community for central Yokohama and Tokyo. Totsuka retains a relatively strong industrial base. In 2010, 160 factories in the ward employed 12,010 employees and their shipment amounted to 399 billion yen.^[1] There are major factories operated by KI Holdings,^[2] Hitachi, Nissin Foods, Yamazaki Baking, Pola Cosmetics, and others.^{[citation needed]}

Transportation

Railroads

JR East - Tōkaidō Main Line
- Totsuka
JR East - Yokosuka Line – Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
- Totsuka – Higashi-Totsuka
Yokohama City Transportation Bureau – Blue Line
- Maioka - Totsuka

Bus

Highways

National Highways

Yokohama Shindō (a bypass route of Route 1)
Route 1

Prefecture roads

Kanagawa Prefectural Route 23
Kanagawa Prefectural Route 203
Kanagawa Prefectural Route 218
Kanagawa Prefectural Route 401
Kanagawa Prefectural Route 402
Kanagawa Prefectural Route 403

City roads

Main Local Road No. 17 Loop Line 2
Loop Line 3
Main Local Road No. 18 Loop Line 4
Totsuka-Ōfuna Line
Maioka-Kamigō Line

Education

Colleges and Universities:

Meiji Gakuin University
Yokohama College of Pharmacy
Kihara Institute for Biological Research (Yokohama City University)
Shōnan University of Medical Sciences

Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education operates prefectural senior high schools:

Yokohama Municipal Board of Education [ja] operates the following municipal high school:

Totsuka High School [ja]

Private secondary school:

Kumon Kokusai Gakuen Junior & Senior High School [ja]

The municipal board of education operates municipal elementary schools and junior high schools.

Junior high schools:^[3]

Akiba (秋葉)
Fukaya (深谷)
Gumisawa (汲沢)
Hirado (平戸)
Maioka (舞岡)
Minami-totsuka (南戸塚)
Nase (名瀬)
Sakaigi (境木)
Taishō (大正)
Totsuka (戸塚)
Toyoda (豊田)

Additionally, Ryokuen Gakuen (緑園学園), a combined elementary and junior high school outside of Totsuka-ku, has an attendance zone including parts of Totsuka-ku.^[4]

Elementary schools:^[5]

Akiba (秋葉)
Fukaya (深谷)
Gumisawa (汲沢)
Higashi-gumisawa (東汲沢)
Higashi-matano (東俣野)
Higashi-shinano (東品濃)
Higashi-totsuka (東戸塚)
Hirado (平戸)
Hiradodai (平戸台)
Kamiyabe (上矢部)
Kashio (柏尾)
Kawakami (川上)
Kawakami-kita (川上北)
Kosuzume (小雀)
Kurata (倉田)
Maioka (舞岡)
Minami-maioka (南舞岡)
Minami-totsuka (南戸塚)
Nase (名瀬)
Sakaigi (境木)
Shimogō (下郷)
Shinano (品濃)
Taishō (大正)
Torigaoka (鳥が丘)
Totsuka (戸塚)
Yabe (矢部)
Yokohama Fukayadai (横浜深谷台)

Former elementary schools:

Matano (俣野) - Merged into Fukayadai Elementary (深谷台小学校) in 2017 to form Yokohama Fukayadai Elementary.^[6]

Additionally, Kosugaya Elementary School (小菅ケ谷小学校), Kuzuno Elementary School (葛野小学校), Mutsukawa Nishi Elementary School (六つ川西小学校), and Toyoda Elementary School (豊田小学校), outside of Totsuka-ku, have attendance zones including parts of Totsuka-ku.^[7]