Hiratsuka

Hiratsuka is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in the Shonan area on the right bank of the Sagami River, almost in the center of the prefecture, and it faces Sagami Bay to the south. A plain runs from the Sagami River to the Kaname River at the northern end of the city, the urban area extends to the south, and the hilly area west of the Kaname River is part of the Oiso Hills with a lot of greenery. It is approximately midway between Tokyo and Mount Fuji. The area has been settled since prehistoric times and is mentioned in Nara period records as part of ancient Osumi District in Sagami Province, and the population grew rapidly in the late twentieth century before plateauing in the twenty-first.