page_title: Kanagawa Prefecture
section_title: Towns and villages
hierarchical_section_title: Kanagawa Prefecture / Geography / Towns and villages
context_page_description: 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 9,058,094 and has a geographic area of 2,415 km². Kanagawa Prefecture borders Tokyo to the north, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northwest, and Shizuoka Prefecture to the west.
  Yokohama is the capital and largest city of Kanagawa Prefecture, and the second-largest city in Japan, with other major cities including Kawasaki, Sagamihara, and Fujisawa. Kanagawa Prefecture is located on Japan's eastern Pacific coast on Tokyo Bay and Sagami Bay, separated by the Miura Peninsula, across from Chiba Prefecture on the Bōsō Peninsula. Kanagawa Prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with Yokohama and many of its cities being major commercial hubs and southern suburbs of Tokyo. Kanagawa Prefecture was the political and economic center of Japan during the Kamakura period when Kamakura was the de facto capital and largest city of Japan as the seat of the Kamakura Shogunate from 1185 to 1333.
context_section_description: These are the towns and villages in each district:
  Aikō District
  Aikawa
  Kiyokawa
  Ashigarakami District
  Kaisei
  Matsuda
  Nakai
  Ōi
  Yamakita
   
  Ashigarashimo District
  Hakone
  Manazuru
  Yugawara
  Kōza District
  Samukawa
  Miura District
  Hayama
  Naka District
  Ninomiya
  Ōiso
caption: Prefectural office of Kanagawa
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