Toyohashi [city] - Toyohashi

Japanese: 豊橋[市] - とよはし

Located in the southeastern part of Aichi Prefecture, facing Mikawa Bay to the west and the Enshu Sea to the south, Toyohashi City occupies the Toyohashi Plain. It was incorporated as a city in 1906. The central city area was called Imabashi in the Middle Ages, later renamed Yoshida, and renamed Toyohashi in the early Meiji period. It has been a castle town since the Middle Ages, and especially in the late 16th century, when it became the castle town of Ikeda Terumasa, who had a fief of 150,000 koku, the town was developed and flourished as Yoshida-shuku on the Tokaido. Since the Meiji period, it has developed as a textile manufacturing city and a military city. Although it was damaged in World War II, it has been reconstructed remarkably after the war, and since Toyohashi Port was opened as an international trading port in 1972, a coastal industrial area has been formed around the port and has developed greatly. The transportation equipment, electrical equipment, and plastic industries are thriving, and it has become an industrial city with a manufacturing shipment value of over 1 trillion yen (2003), and is the core of the eastern Mikawa region. Blessed with a warm climate and water resources, vegetable cultivation is thriving, and the city has one of the highest gross agricultural production values in the country. The area is 261.86 ^km2 . Population: 376,665 (2010).
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愛知県南東部，西は三河湾，南は遠州灘に面し豊橋平野を占める市。1906年市制。中心市街は中世に今橋と呼ばれ，のち吉田と改め，明治初年豊橋に改称。中世以来の城下町で，特に16世紀末池田輝政15万石の城下となり町が整備され，東海道吉田宿としても栄えた。明治以後，紡織工業都市，軍都として発展。第２次大戦で戦災にあったが，戦後の復興は著しく，1972年豊橋港が国際貿易港として開港以来，港を中心に臨海工業地域が形成されて大きく発展した。輸送用機器，電気機器，プラスチック工業などが盛んで，１兆円以上（2003）の製造品出荷額を上げる工業都市となり，東三河地区の中核をなしている。また温暖な気候と水利に恵まれ，野菜栽培が盛んで，全国有数の農業粗生産額を上げている。東海道本線・新幹線，飯田線，名鉄名古屋本線，豊橋鉄道が通じる。261.86km²。37万6665人（2010）。
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