Seya-ku, Yokohama

Seya 瀬谷区
Ward
Seya Ward
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Location of Seya in Kanagawa
Seya
Coordinates: 35°27′59″N 139°29′57″E / 35.46639°N 139.49917°E / 35.46639; 139.49917
Country	Japan
Region	Kantō
Prefecture	Kanagawa
City	Yokohama
Government
• Mayor	City logo
Area
• Total	17.11 km² (6.61 sq mi)
Population (February 2010)
• Total	126,839
• Density	7,390/km² (19,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+9 (Japan Standard Time)
City symbols
• Tree	Zelkova serrata
• Flower	Hydrangea
• Bird	Azure-winged magpie
Address	190 Futatsubashi-chō, Seya-ku Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 246-0021
Website	Seya Ward Office

Seya-ku (瀬谷区) 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 126,839 and a density of 7,390 persons per km². The total area was 17.16 km².

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Hi If you live in Yokohama and was wondering where to play with kites I'm sure you would realize that there aren't many places here... I mean this side is pretty much a port That's all busy... The only possible place would be down here but if you live inland more there are just too many buildings around but there is just one place here around the Seya ward where we have the US Naval Facility They have pretty nice piece of land here that they probably rent to the locals I'm going to zoom in here Now... I'm going to switch to the Satellite mode Right here close to the road No. 18 is the entrance to the US naval base here You probably get hundred meters this way and hundred meters that way so in total two hundred meters for your kiting creaziness here we have a parking all free of charge This place of course is locked at night so make sure you exit I think... I think they lock this after 7 o'clock. Also no remote controlled toys are allowed so this place is famous for people with kiting hobby... dogs, kids running around I think this is a heli-pad here That's pretty much it.

Geography

Seya Ward is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture, and on the northwestern borders of the city of Yokohama. The area is largely flatland, with scattered small hills.

Surrounding municipalities

History

The area around present-day Seya Ward has been inhabited continuously for thousands of years. Archaeologists have found stone tools from the Japanese Paleolithic period and ceramic shards from the Jōmon period, house ruins from the Yayoi period and tombs from the Kofun period at numerous locations in the area. Under the Nara period Ritsuryō system, it became part of Kamakura District in Sagami Province. By the Kamakura period, parts of Seya were part of a shōen which supported the Shinto shrine of Tsurugaoka Hachimangū. The Kamakura-kaidō, a highway linking Kamakura with the provinces in northern Japan also passed through the area. During the Muromachi period, Seya was a contested territory between the competing Uesugi clan and Ashikaga clan until the area was 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 a post station on the Kamakura-kaidō and Nakahara-kaidō highways connecting Edo with Kamakura and with the provinces of central Honshu. At times, Seya was administered by Totsuka-juku, Fujisawa-shuku, and towards the Bakumatsu period came under the control of the Nirayama daikansho . After the Meiji Restoration, Seya was transferred to the short-lived Nirayama Prefecture, before becoming part of the new Kanagawa Prefecture in 1868. In the cadastral reform of April 1, 1889, the area was divided into several villages under Kamakura District. During the Meiji period, the area was a center for sericulture. Seya suffered relatively little damage from the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, with one fatality and 53 houses destroyed. The Sagami Railway Main Line connected the area with Yokohama in 1926.

On April 1, 1939, Seya was annexed by the neighboring city of Yokohama, becoming part of Totsuka Ward. During World War II, Seya hosted numerous military facilities, including munitions plants and training grounds. Seya Station was destroyed in an air strike in January 1945 and the populated areas were destroyed in a fire-bombing air raid by USAAF B-29 Superfortress bombers on April 3, 1945.

In the post-war period, a USAF B-57 Canberra bomber based at nearby Atsugi Naval Air Facility crashed on October 27, 1957 with the loss of one civilian on the ground, and on November 27, 1961, an F8U Crusader crashed in a residential area. In a major administrative reorganization of October 1, 1969, Totsuka-ku was divided, and Seya emerged as an independent ward within Yokohama.

Economy

Seya Ward is largely a regional commercial center and bedroom community for central Yokohama and Tokyo. The industrial part has access to the Tōmei Highway, and there are a number of newspaper printing plants, chemical plants, and warehouse/transshipment centers. There is some residual agriculture in Seya, primarily livestock.