:Shizuoka Prefecture

{{See also|Historic Sites of Shizuoka Prefecture}}

Shizuoka Prefecture was established from the former Tōtōmi, Suruga and Izu provinces.Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at {{Google books|p2QnPijAEmEC|p. 780|page=780}}.

The area was the home of the first Tokugawa shōgun.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}} Tokugawa Ieyasu held the region until he conquered the lands of the Hōjō clan in the Kantō region and placed land under the stewardship of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. After becoming shōgun, Tokugawa took the land back for his family and put the area around modern-day Shizuoka City under the direct supervision of the shogunate. With the creation of the Shizuoka han from the Sunpu Domain in 1868, it once again became the residence of the Tokugawa family.

Shizuoka Prefecture is an elongated region following the coast of the Pacific Ocean at the Suruga Bay. In the west, the prefecture extends deep into the Japan Alps. In the east, it becomes a narrower coast bounded in the north by Mount Fuji, until it comes to the Izu Peninsula, a popular resort area pointing south into the Pacific.{{Citation needed|date=August 2017}}

{{As of|2012|04|post=,}} 11% of the total land area of the prefecture was designated as natural parks, namely the Fuji-Hakone-Izu and Minami Alps National Parks; Tenryū-Okumikawa Quasi-National Park; and four Prefectural Natural Parks.{{cite web |url=http://www.env.go.jp/en/nature/nps/park/doc/files/np_6.pdf |title=General overview of area figures for Natural Parks by prefecture |publisher=Ministry of the Environment |date=1 April 2012 |access-date=10 August 2014}}

In Shizuoka prefecture, the temperature, over the course of the year, typically varies from 1.1 °C (34 °F) to 30.5 °C (87 °F) and is rarely below -2.2 °C (28 °F) or above 33.8 °C (93 °F.) The summers in Shizuoka are warm, oppressive, and mostly cloudy; the winters are very cold, windy, and mostly clear.[https://weatherspark.com/y/143722/Average-Weather-in-Shizuoka-Japan-Year-Round weatherspark, Shizuoka prefecture.]

On 15 March 2011, Shizuoka Prefecture was hit with a magnitude 6.2 earthquake approximately {{Convert|42|km|mi|abbr=on}} NNE of Shizuoka City. It is said, that throughout history, Shizuoka area has experienced a large earthquake every 100 to 150 years.

:{{See also|Tōkai earthquakes}}

File:Shizuoka prefecture population pyramid in 2020.svg

3,635,220 people live in Shizuoka Prefecture, according to the 2020 census.[https://toukei.pref.shizuoka.jp/jinkoushugyouhan/data/02-010/documents/r2sokuhou.pdf Shizuoka prefecture official statistics（令和2年国勢調査 静岡県の人口（速報値））]

{{See also|List of cities in Shizuoka Prefecture by population}}

Since 2010, Shizuoka has consisted of 35 municipalities: 23 cities and 12 towns.

File:Nihondaira from shizuoka plain.JPG|Shizuoka City

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File:Numazu and Mount Fuji.jpg|Numazu and Mount Fuji

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{{Main|List of mergers in Shizuoka Prefecture}}

After the introduction of modern municipalities in 1889, Shizuoka consisted of 337 municipalities: 1 (by definition: district-independent) city and 23 districts with 31 towns and 305 villages. The Great Shōwa mergers of the 1950s reduced the total from 281 to 97 between 1953 and 1960, including 18 cities by then. The Great Heisei mergers of the 2000s combined the 74 remaining municipalities in the year 2000 into the current 35 by 2010.

Home to a shogun, cherry shrimp, and Japan's green tea heartland. Situated along Suruga Bay between Tokyo and Nagoya on the historic Tokaido route, the Pacific coast city of Shizuoka is famed for supplying most of Japan's tea and maguro tuna.

Shizuoka-based companies are world leaders in several major industrial sectors. Honda, Yamaha, and Suzuki all have their roots in Shizuoka prefecture and are still manufacturing here. Thanks to this, Shizuoka prefecture accounts for 28% of Japanese motorcycle exports.[http://www.pref.shizuoka.jp/a_foreign/english/glance/business.html Shizuoka Prefecture official website, Industry in Shizuoka.]

Yamaha and Kawai are both global piano brands. Yamaha has the largest share in the global piano market. Kawai has the second largest share. They both got their start in Shizuoka prefecture in the early twentieth century.[http://g.kyoto-art.ac.jp/reports/1131/ (In Japanese) Kyoto University of Arts, Musical instruments industry in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture.]

Yamaha and Roland are major brand for electronic musical instruments. In the electronic piano world market, Yamaha has the world's largest share. Roland and Kawai have the second and third place share. Roland and Yamaha also manufacture high-quality synthesizers and drum machines for professional musicians.

In addition, various instruments such as wind instruments and guitars are manufactured in this prefecture. There are about 200 companies that manufacture musical instruments, in this prefecture.

Most of these musical instruments are especially produced in Hamamatsu City.

File:YAMAHA (headquarters 3).jpg|Yamaha headquarters

File:SUZUKI-MotorHQ.jpg|Suzuki headquarters

File:Yamaha MT-07 at Tokyo Motor Show 2013.jpg|Yamaha motorcycles

File:Suzuki GW250 2011 Tokyo Motor Show.jpg|Suzuki motorcycles

File:Yamaha Outboard Motors 001.JPG|Yamaha outboard motors

File:SUZUKI MARINE, Engine DF90AT, Outboard motor,.jpg|Suzuki outboard motors

File:Yamaha grand piano, Piano Recital 2012.jpg|Yamaha grand piano

File:Matt Bellamy Lollapalooza 2007.jpg|Kawai grand piano

File:Yamaha P-140S top view.jpg|Yamaha electronic piano

File:Roland D-50 Front (tweaked image).jpg|Roland D-50 sythesizer

File:TR-808 - MIM, Phoenix (2019-08-30 14.59.26 by Bryan Pocius) (cropped).jpg|Roland TR-808. An iconic drum machine by Roland.

File:Yamaha guitars, NAMM 2011.jpg|Yamaha acoustic guitars

File:Yamaha SG1802, Guitar-Day 2010.jpg|Yamaha electric guitars

File:Musical instruments on display at the MIM (14165208240).jpg|Yamaha wind instruments

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• Enshū Railway
• Gakunan Railway
• Izuhakone Railway
• Daiyūzan Line
• Sunzu Line
• Izukyū
• JR Central
• Tōkaidō Shinkansen
• Iida Line
• Gotenba Line
• Minobu Line
• Tōkaidō Line (Atami–Toyohashi)
• JR East
• Tōkaidō Line (Atami–Odawara)
• Itō Line
• Ōigawa Railway
• Shizuoka Railway
• Tenryū Hamanako Railroad

• Chūbu-Ōdan Expressway
• Izu-Jūkan Expressway
• San-en Nanshin Expressway
• Shin-Tōmei Expressway
• Tōmei Expressway

• Fujinomiya Road
• Nishi-Fuji Road
• Shizuoka East-West Road
• Shizuoka South-North Road
• West Fuji Road (not a toll road anymore as of 2012)

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• National Route 1
• National Route 42
• National Route 52
• National Route 135
• National Route 136
• National Route 138
• National Route 139
• National Route 149
• National Route 150
• National Route 152
• National Route 246
• National Route 257
• National Route 301
• National Route 362
• National Route 414
• National Route 469
• National Route 473
• National Route 474

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File:Fujisan-Shizuoka airport,Makinohara-city,Japan.jpg

• Shizuoka Airport

• Shimizu Port
• Atami Port and Shimoda Port – Mainly ferry route to Izu Island
• Numazu Port

National universities

• Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Mishima Campus, National Institute of Genetics)
• Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
• Shizuoka University

Public universities

• Shizuoka University of Art and Culture
• University of Shizuoka

Private universities

• Fuji Tokoha University
• Hamamatsu University
• Hamamatsu Gakuin University
• Juntendo University (Mishima Campus)
• Nihon University (Mishima Campus)
• Seirei Christopher University
• Shizuoka Eiwa Gakuin University
• Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology
• Shizuoka Sangyo University
• Shizuoka University of Welfare
• Tokai University (Shimizu and Numazu Campuses)
• Tokoha Gakuen University
• Tokyo Women's Medical University (Daito Campus)

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• Hamana High School
• Hiryū High School
• Numazu Commercial High School
• Shizuoka Gakuen Junior and Senior High School
• Shizuoka Prefectural High School
• Shizuoka Prefectural Susono High School

File:Nihondaira stadium20090412a.jpg playing at the IAI Stadium Nihondaira in Shimizu-ku]]

The sports teams listed below are based in Shizuoka.

• San-en NeoPhoenix

• Fuji International Speedway

• Yamaha Júbilo (Iwata)

• Shimizu S-Pulse (Shimizu, Shizuoka)
• Júbilo Iwata (Iwata)
• Matches between the above two teams, both currently in the top flight of the J. League, are known as the Shizuoka derby.
• Honda F.C. (Hamamatsu)
• Azul Claro Numazu (Numazu)
• Fujieda MYFC (Fujieda)

• Toray Arrows (men's volleyball team) (Mishima city)

{{See also|Tourism in Japan}}

• {{ill|Museum of Natural and Environmental History, Shizuoka|ja|ふじのくに地球環境史ミュージアム|species|SPMN}}
• Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art

• Air Park Japan Air Self-Defense Force Hamamatsu Public Information Building){{Cite web |url=https://planetyze.com/en/japan/shizuoka/air-park-japan-air-self-defense-force-hamamatsu-public-information-building/information |title=About Air Park Japan Air Self-Defense Force Hamamatsu Public Information Building – Shizuoka Travel Guide {{!}} Planetyze|website=Planetyze|language=en|access-date=17 November 2017}}
• Shimizu Sushi Museum{{Cite web |url=https://planetyze.com/en/japan/shizuoka/shimizu-sushi-museum/information |title=About Shimizu Sushi Museum – Shizuoka Travel Guide {{!}} Planetyze|website=Planetyze|language=en|access-date=17 November 2017}}

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• Daidogei World Cup in central Shizuoka City, held in November
• Enshu Daimyo Festival in Iwata, held in April
• Mishima Festival, held in August
• Numazu Festival, held in July
• Shimizu Port Festival, held on 5 to 7 August
• Shimoda Black Ship Festival, held in May
• Shizuoka Festival, held in April

File:Fujinomiya Hongu Sengen Taisha Honden.jpg|Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha Fujinomiya

File:181124 Shuzenji Onsen Izu Shizuoka pref Japan01s3.jpg|Shuzenji Onsen Izu

File:Sunpu-castle tatsumi-yagura.JPG|Sunpu Castle Shizuoka Aoi-ku

File:Hamamatsu.JPG|Hamamatsu Castle Hamamatsu Chūō-ku

File:Kakegawa castle.jpg|Kakegawa Castle Kakegawa

File:静岡県立美術館-1.JPG|Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art Shizuoka Suruga-ku

File:LakeSanaru2.JPG|Lake Sanaru Hamamatsu Nishi-ku

File:BentenjimaKaihinkoenHamamatsu1.jpg|Lake Hamana Hamamatsu Nishi-ku

File:Beach in Atami City with sea bathers.jpg|Atami Sun Beach Atami

File:Prunus lannesiana cv. Kawazu-zakura 05.jpg|Kawazu Cherry blossom Kamo District Kawazu

File:Mt Fuji at Mihonomatsubara.jpg|Miho no Matsubara Shizuoka Shimizu-ku

File:富士サファリパーク ライオン2 Fuji-safari-park-Lion2.jpg|Fuji Safari Park Susono

File:Hanahaku2014-4.JPG|Hamanako Garden Park Hamamatsu Nishi-ku

File:Snowtown Yeti.JPG|Snowtown Yeti & Mount Fuji Susono

File:Haiden of Kunozan Toshogu.jpg|Kunōzan Tōshō-gū Shizuoka Suruga-ku

File:Jogasaki Coast 20111016 b.jpg|Jogasaki Coast Itō

Motoo Kimura (木村 資生, 1924–1994), biologist and theoretical population geneticist, died in Shizuoka Prefecture

{{Reflist}}

• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC Japan encyclopedia.] Cambridge: Harvard University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-674-01753-5}}; [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58053128?referer=di&ht=edition OCLC 58053128]

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• [http://www.pref.shizuoka.jp/a_foreign/english/ Official Shizuoka Prefecture website]
• [http://www.shizuoka-guide.com/english/index.html Official Shizuoka Guide]

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