Kanagawa
Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 and third-densest at 3,800 inhabitants per square kilometre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Yokohama and Kawasaki.
Yokohama
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On the western coast of Tokyo Bay directly south of Tokyo, Yokohama is the second largest city in Japan and one of the cities most used to seeing foreigners.
Kawasaki
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Kawasaki, officially Kawasaki City, is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, one of the main cities of the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area.
Kamakura
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Kamakura is a small city in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, Japan. It is a very popular destination among Tokyoites for its beaches, lively center and many temples. It is the perfect place to take a day off from Tokyo's stress.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Sagamihara and Yokosuka.
Sagamihara
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Sagamihara is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of May 1, 2021, the city has an estimated population of 723,470, with 334,812 households, and a population density of 1,220 persons per km2.
Yokosuka
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Yokosuka is a major city in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. Yokosuka city is on the coast and near to sea. The population is about 420,000 in Yokosuka city. Because of the naval base, many Americans are among its population.
Odawara
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Odawara is a city in Kanagawa prefecture in eastern Japan. It is on the coast of Sagami Bay, about 80 km southwest of Tokyo. Odawara is near Hakone, a major hot springs destination and is along the historic Tokaido road between Edo and Kyoto.
Atsugi
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Atsugi is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Generally known as a commuter city, Atsugi does have a few local attractions. Although the name Atsugi is also synonymous with the name of the United States Navy Base, the base is actually in the neighboring communities of Ayase and Yamato.
Fujisawa
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Fujisawa is a small town in Kanagawa, Japan, near Kamakura. It is also the name of the municipality that encompasses Shonandai and Enoshima island.
Zushi
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Zushi is a small city in Kanagawa, Japan about an hour by train south of Tokyo. It is often visited for its beach, marina, and summer events. Though it has a few historic temples and similar scenery to neighboring Kamakura, it gets much fewer tourists.
Miura
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Miura is a city in Kanagawa, covering the southernmost part of the Miura Peninsula, best known for tuna at its fishery port, Misaki.
Hakone
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Hakone is a mountainous area west of Tokyo in Japan. The Hakone checkpoint on the historical Tokaido road marks the beginning of the Kanto region.
Enoshima
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Enoshima is both a small island and a small seaside town next to the island in Kanagawa prefecture Fujisawa city, to the south of Tokyo. It's a popular beach destination and, on a nice summer day, has a bit of a laid-back California surfer vibe.
Manazuru
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Manazuru is a coastal resort in Kanagawa prefecture, on the east coast of the Izu Peninsula southwest of Tokyo, Japan, near Hakone, Odawara, Atami and Yugawara.
Kanagawa
Latitude of center
35.4343° or 35° 26′ 4″ northLongitude of center
139.3748° or 139° 22′ 29″ eastPopulation
9,100,000Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)Inception
April 11th, 1868OpenStreetMap ID
node 2719205431OpenStreetMap feature
place=provinceGeoNames ID
1860291Wikidata ID
Q127513
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Kanagawa” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Prefektur Kanagawa”
- Afrikaans: “Kanagawa Prefektuur”
- Afrikaans: “Kanagawa-prefektuur”
- Albanian: “Kanagawa”
- Albanian: “Prefektura e Kanagavës”
- Arabic: “كاناغاوا”
- Arabic: “محافظة كاناغاوا”
- Aragonese: “Prefectura de Kanagawa”
- Armenian: “Կանագավա”
- Asturian: “Kanagawa (prefeutura)”
- Asturian: “Kanagawa (Xapón)”
- Asturian: “Kanagawa”
- Asturian: “prefeutura de Kanagawa”
- Asturian: “Prefeutura de Kanagawa”
- Azerbaijani: “Kanaqava prefekturası”
- Balinese: “Préféktur Kanagawa”
- Bashkir: “Канагава”
- Basque: “Kanagawa prefektura”
- Basque: “Kanagawa”
- Belarusian: “Канагава (прэфэктура)”
- Belarusian: “Канагава”
- Belarusian: “прэфектура Канагава”
- Belarusian: “Прэфектура Канагава”
- Belarusian: “Прэфэктура Канагава”
- Bengali: “কানাগাওয়া প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Канагава”
- Catalan: “prefectura de Kanagawa”
- Catalan: “Prefectura de Kanagawa”
- Cebuano: “Kanagawa-ken”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای کاناگاوا”
- Central Kurdish: “کاناگاوا”
- Chechen: “Канагава (префектура)”
- Chechen: “Канагава”
- Chinese: “Kanagawa-koān”
- Chinese: “神奈川”
- Chinese: “神奈川县”
- Chinese: “神奈川県”
- Chinese: “神奈川縣”
- Corsican: “prefettura di Kanagawa”
- Corsican: “prifettura di Kanagawa”
- Croatian: “Kanagawa”
- Croatian: “Prefektura Kanagava”
- Czech: “prefektura Kanagawa”
- Czech: “Prefektura Kanagawa”
- Danish: “Kanagawa-ken”
- Danish: “Kanagawa-præfekturet”
- Danish: “Kanagawa”
- Dutch: “Kanagawa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاناجاوا”
- Esperanto: “gubernio Kanagaŭa”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Kanagaŭa”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Kanagavo”
- Esperanto: “JP-14”
- Esperanto: “Kanagaŭa prefektujo”
- Esperanto: “Kanagaŭa”
- Estonian: “Kanagawa prefektuur”
- Finnish: “Kanagawa”
- Finnish: “Kanagawan prefektuuri”
- French: “Kanagawa”
- French: “préfecture de Kanagawa”
- French: “Préfecture de Kanagawa”
- Galician: “Prefectura de Kanagawa”
- Georgian: “კანაგავა”
- Georgian: “კანაგავის პრეფექტურა”
- German: “JP-14”
- German: “Kanagawa-ken”
- German: “Kanagawa”
- German: “Präfektur Kanagawa”
- Greek: “Καναγκάβα”
- Greek: “Νομός Καναγκάβα”
- Gujarati: “કનાગાવા પ્રીફેકચર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kanagawa-yen”
- Hebrew: “קנאגאווה”
- Hindi: “कानागावा प्रीफेक्चर”
- Hungarian: “Kanagava prefektúra”
- Hungarian: “Kanagawa prefektúra”
- Iloko: “Kanagawa”
- Iloko: “Prefectura ti Kanagawa”
- Iloko: “Prepektura ti Kanagawa”
- Indonesian: “Kanagawa”
- Indonesian: “Prefektur Kanagawa”
- Irish: “Maoracht Kanagawa”
- Italian: “Kanagawa”
- Italian: “prefettura di Kanagawa”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Kanagawa”
- Japanese: “Kanagawa-ken”
- Japanese: “かながわ”
- Japanese: “カナガワ”
- Japanese: “かながわけん”
- Japanese: “カナガワケン”
- Japanese: “神奈川”
- Japanese: “神奈川県”
- Kannada: “ಕನಗವಾ”
- Kannada: “ಕನಗಾವಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Kanagabа”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Kanagavа prefekturası”
- Khmer: “ខេត្តខាណាហ្កាវ៉ា”
- Khmer: “ខេត្តខាន់ណាហ្គាវ៉ា”
- Khmer: “អាណាខេត្ត កាន់ណាហ្គាវ៉ា”
- Khmer: “អាណាខេត្ត ខាន់ណាហ្គាវ៉ា”
- Korean: “가나가와 현”
- Korean: “가나가와현”
- Korean: “카나가와 현”
- Korean: “카나가와현”
- Lao: “ແຂວງຄານາງາວະ”
- Latvian: “Kanagavas prefektūra”
- Literary Chinese: “神奈川縣”
- Lithuanian: “Kanagava prefektūra”
- Lithuanian: “Kanagava”
- Lithuanian: “Kanagavos prefektūra”
- Lithuanian: “Kanagawa prefektūra”
- Macedonian: “Канагава”
- Malay: “Kanagawa”
- Malay: “Wilayah Kanagawa”
- Manipuri: “ꯀꯥꯅꯥꯒꯥꯋꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
- Marathi: “कनागावा प्रांत”
- Marathi: “कानागावा प्रांत”
- Marathi: “कानागावा”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Kanagawa-gâing”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kanagawa Koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kanagawa-koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kanagawa-kōan”
- Mongolian: “Канагава муж”
- Mongolian: “Канагава”
- Nepali: “कानागावा”
- Northern Frisian: “Kanagawa (Prefektüür)”
- Northern Frisian: “Kanagawa”
- Northern Sami: “Kanagawa prefektuvra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kanagawa prefektur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Prefekturet Kanagawa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kanagawa prefektur”
- Norwegian: “Kanagawa”
- Novial: “Kanagawa Prefekture”
- Occitan (post 1500): “prefectura de Kanagawa”
- Ossetian: “Канагавæ”
- Pampanga: “Kanagawa Prefecture”
- Pampanga: “Prepektura ning Kanagawa”
- Persian: “استان كاناگاوا”
- Persian: “استان کاناگاوا”
- Persian: “کاناگاوا”
- Polish: “Kanagawa”
- Polish: “Prefektura Kanagawa”
- Portuguese: “Kanagawa”
- Romanian: “Kanagawa”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Kanagawa”
- Russian: “Канагава”
- Scots: “Kanagawa Prefectur”
- Serbian: “Prefektura Kanagava”
- Serbian: “Канагава”
- Serbian: “Префектура Канагава”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kanagava”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kanagawa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Kanagava”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Kanagawa”
- Sinhala: “කනගාවා ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Kanagawa”
- Slovenian: “Prefektura Kanagava”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاناقاوا اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Kanagawa Japon”
- Spanish: “Kanagawa Japón”
- Spanish: “Kanagawa”
- Spanish: “prefectura de Kanagawa”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de Kanagawa”
- Sundanese: “Kanagawa Prefecture”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Kanagawa”
- Swedish: “Kanagawa prefektur”
- Swedish: “Kanagawa”
- Tagalog: “Kanagawa Prefecture”
- Tagalog: “Kanagawa”
- Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Kanagawa”
- Tagalog: “Prepekturang Kanagawa”
- Tajik: “Prefekturai Kanagava”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Канагава”
- Tamil: “கனகவா ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுர்”
- Tatar: “Канагава (префектура)”
- Tatar: “Канагава”
- Telugu: “కనగావా ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดคานางาวะ”
- Turkish: “Kanagawa ili”
- Turkish: “Kanagawa prefektörlüğü”
- Turkish: “Kanagawa”
- Ukrainian: “Канагава”
- Ukrainian: “Канаґава”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Канагава”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Канаґава”
- Urdu: “کاناگاوا پریفیکچر”
- Uzbek: “Kanagava”
- Venetian: “Prefetura de Kanagawa”
- Vietnamese: “Huyện Kanagawa”
- Vietnamese: “Kanagawa”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Kanagawa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kanagawa Prefecture”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kanagawa”
- Welsh: “Kanagawa”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع کاناگاوا”
- Wu Chinese: “神奈川县”
- Yue Chinese: “神奈川县”
- Yue Chinese: “神奈川縣”
- “ma Kanakawa”
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