Sakuma (Shizuoka)

Sakuma (Japanese佐 久 间 町, -chō ) was a town in Iwata -gun in the Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka.

History

On September 30, 1956, the Chō Urakawa closed (浦 川 町, chō ) and the Mura Sakuma (佐 久 间 村, -mura ), Shironishi (城西 村, -mura ) and Yamaka (山 香 村, -mura ) for Chō Sakuma together.

On 1 July 2005 Sakuma was incorporated in Hamamatsu same name as a neighborhood in the borough of Tenryu -ku (天 竜 区).

Traffic

• Street: National Road 152 Ueda or Hamamatsu
• National Road 473 after Gamagōri or Makinohara

• JR Central Iida Line to Toyohashi or Tatsuno

Power generation

In the Sakuma Sakuma Dam, which supplies an important Japanese hydroelectric power plant is located.

An kilometers southwest of the hydroelectric plant, the first plant for high voltage direct current transmission of Japan in 1965 realized. It consisted in a short coupling for coupling the powered with 50 hertz and 60 hertz parts of the Japanese electricity grid. For the converters were mercury vapor rectifier used. This system, the exchange of up to 300 megawatts between the two power supplies allowed in a symmetrical voltage of 125 kV, was replaced by the first equipped with Fotothyristoren converter plant in the world in 1993.

Education

In Sakuma there were four elementary, two middle and one high school.