神奈川県

Kanagawa Prefecture


神奈川県 (Kanagawa Prefecture) is located on Honshu Island, the largest island of Japan. It is part of the Kantō region which consists of the Greater Tokyo Area surrounded by the seven prefectures Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba and Kanagawa. Kantō region is the heartland of feudal power during the Kamakura period and again in the Edo period. The capital of the Kanagawa Prefecture is Yokohama, popular is the GeoPark around