Ebina

Ebina is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, about fifty kilometres from central Tokyo and twenty from Yokohama. It is a roughly rectangular city on the Sagami Plain, on the eastern bank of the Sagami River, and the Tomei Expressway crosses its southern end. Settled since prehistoric times with Kofun period remains, it became the provincial capital of Sagami in the Nara period and held the provincial temple. Rail links opened in 1926 and 1927, bringing rapid growth, and it became a city on 1 November 1971. Urban redevelopment in the 1980s and 1990s modernised the centre, and the population has grown steadily for a century.