Okazaki, Aichi

is a Japanese city in Aichi Prefecture on the island of Honshu.

It has been recognized as a core city since 2003.Jacobs, A.J.  "Japan's Evolving Nested Municipal Hierarchy: The Race for Local Power in the 2000s," Urban Studies Research, Vol. 2011 (2011), p. 8 [PDF 8 of 14]; retrieved 2012-12-5.

History

In the Edo period, Fujikawa-shuku was one of the fifty-three shogunate-maintained waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Tōkaidō"  in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 973.

Education
Universities and colleges
 National Institutes of Natural Sciences
 National Institute for Basic Biology
 Aichi Gakusen University
 Aichi Gakusen College
 Aichi Sangyo University
 University of Human Environments
 Okazaki Women's Junior College

Sister cities
 Newport Beach, California, United States, Since November 1984
 Uddevalla, Sweden, since September 1968
 Hohhot, People's Republic of China, since August 1987

People from Okazaki
Yuki Fukaya – professional soccer player
Motoo Kimura - biologist
Takashi Kondō – voice actor
Kotomitsuki Keiji – sumo wrestler
Satoru Nakajima – race car driver
Kazuki Nakajima – race car driver
Hiromasa Yamamoto – professional soccer player

Related pages
 The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

References

Other websites

   Okazaki website 

Category:Cities in Aichi Prefecture