Yoshida, Shizuoka

Infobox City Japan
Name= Yoshida
JapaneseName= 吉田町
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Region= Chūbu
Prefecture= Shizuoka
District= Haibara District
Area_km2= 20.84
PopDate= April 2005
Population= 29,052
Density_km2= 1394.04
Coords= coord|34|46|N|138|15|E|region:JP_type:city
Tree= pine
Flower= chrysanthemum
Bird=
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Mayor= Norihiko Tamura
CityHallPostalCode= 421-0395
CityHallAddress= 87 Sumiyoshi, Yoshida-chō, Haibara-gun, Shizuoka-ken
CityHallPhone= 548-33-1111
CityHallLink= [http://www.wbs.ne.jp/bt/yoshida/ Town of Yoshida]

nihongo|Yoshida|吉田町|Yoshida-chō is a town located in Haibara District, southern Shizuoka, Japan.

Eel and iceberg lettuce are specialties of Yoshida.The town's Koyama castle was built by Takeda-clan,a well-known samurai clan in the Sengoku period in 1568.

Geography

urrounding municipalities

*Makinohara
*Shimada
*Ōigawa, Shida District

History

*April 1, 1889 - "Yoshida Village" founded from the merger of 6 pre-Meiji villages.
*July 1, 1949 - Yoshida Village was reclassified as Yoshida Town.

ister Cities

Within Japan

*Yoshida (Saitama Prefecture) - (Became a sister city in 1995) (Now the city of Chichibu)
*Yoshida (Niigata Prefecture) - (Became a sister city in 1995) (Now the city of Tsubame)
*Yoshida (Hiroshima Prefecture) - (Became a sister city in 1995) (Now the city of Akitakata)
*Yoshida (Ehime Prefecture) - (Became a sister city in 1995) (Now the city of Uwajima)
*Yoshida (Kagoshima Prefecture) - (Became a sister city in 1995) (Now the city of Kagoshima)

External links

* [http://www.wbs.ne.jp/bt/yoshida/ Yoshida official website] in Japanese
* [http://homepage2.nifty.com/sugao/english-top.html Kataoka Shrine] (Commonly called "Sumiyoshi Shrine")