Chigasaki, Kanagawa

Chigasaki (Japanese茅ヶ崎 市, -shi ) is a city in the center of Kanagawa Prefecture.

Geography

Chigasaki lies south of Tokyo and Yokohama, west of Fujisawa and east of Hiratsuka in Sagami Bay. A stretch of beach in Chigasaki Southern Beach is whose lead singer Kuwata Keisuke comes after the pop group Southern All Stars from Chigasaki, called. As a popular seaside resort Chigasaki is known as the birthplace of Japanese surfing. A shop called Goddess was the first surfboard shop in Japan. The symbol of the Southern Beach is Eboshi - iwa, a large hutformiger from the coast visible rock.

The coastline of Chigasaki to Kamakura is called Shonan.

The Sagami flows through the city from northwest to southwest.

Attractions

  • Shonan beach

Traffic

  • Street: National Road 1, by Tōkyō and Kyōto

Economy

  • TOTO

Adjacent Cities and Towns

  • Hiratsuka
  • Fujisawa
  • Samukawa

Twinning

  • Japan Okazaki, Japan, since 1983

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Keisuke Kuwata: Lead singer of the Southern All Stars
  • Ai Sugiyama: tennis player
  • Soichi Noguchi: Astronaut
  • Ailes Gilmour: early pioneer of American modern dance movement
  • Fumiyuki Beppu: cyclist
  • Masa Yamamoto: Baseball Player
Great Tit Cities of Japan Fujisawa (Kanagawa) Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Kamakura, Kanagawa Chigasaki Station Atami (Shizuoka) Sagami Line Hashimoto (Wakayama) Samukawa (Kanagawa) Okazaki, Aichi Masahiro Yamamoto (baseball) Atsugi, Kanagawa Ayase, Kanagawa Ebina, Kanagawa Hadano, Kanagawa Isehara, Kanagawa Kawasaki (Kanagawa) Minamiashigara, Kanagawa Miura (Kanagawa) Odawara, Kanagawa Sagamihara Yamato (Kanagawa) Yokosuka, Kanagawa Zama (Kanagawa) Zushi, Kanagawa Nakai (Kanagawa) Hakone, Kanagawa Manazuru, Kanagawa Yugawara, Kanagawa Hayama (Kanagawa) Ninomiya (Kanagawa)
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