Kawaguchi, Saitama

Kawaguchi is a city in southeastern Saitama Prefecture, Japan, part of the Kanto region just north of Tokyo. As of April 2025 it had approximately 595,011 residents over about 62 square kilometers, making it the eighth most populous municipality in the Greater Tokyo Area and the second largest in Saitama Prefecture after Saitama city itself. The settlement first appears in an official record dated to 741 AD, and it was elevated to city status in 1933. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/