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| settlement_type = Designated city | image_skyline = Shizuoka montage.jpg | imagesize = | image_caption = Top left: Shizuoka Sengen Shrine; Top right: Nihondaira Stadium Middle: Mount Fuji & Shimizu Port from Nihondaira Upper bottom left green tea fields; Lower bottom left Toro ruins; Bottom right: Tatsumi yagura of Sunpu Castle | image_flag = Flag of Shizuoka, Shizuoka.svg | image_map = Location of Shizuoka city Shizuoka prefecture Japan.svg | lat_deg = 34 | lat_min = 59| lat_sec = | lon_deg = 138 | lon_min = 23| lon_sec = | region = Chūbu (Tōkai) | prefecture = Shizuoka Prefecture | district = | mayor = Nobuhiro Tanabe | area_km2 = 1411.85 | population = 723,317 | population_as_of = February 2012 | density_km2 = 507 | tree = Flowering dogwood | flower = Hollyhock | bird = Common kingfisher | city_hall_address = 5-1 Ōtemachi, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka-ken | city_hall_postal_code = 420-8602 | website = }} is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and the prefecture's second-largest city both population and area. It has been populated since prehistoric times. The city's name is made up of two ''kanji'', 静—''shizu'', meaning "still" or "calm"; and 岡—''oka'', meaning "hill(s)".〔 In 1869, Shizuoka Domain was first created out of the older Sunpu Domain, and that name was retained when the city was incorporated in 1885. In 2003, Shizuoka merged with Shimizu City (now Shimizu Ward), briefly becoming the largest city by land area in Japan. In 2005, it became one of Japan's "designated cities". ==Geography== Shizuoka City centrally located in Shizuoka Prefecture, about halfway between Tokyo and Nagoya along the Tokaido Corridor, sandwiched between Suruga Bay to the south and the Minami Alps in the north. Shizuoka had the largest area of any municipality in Japan after merging with Shimizu City in April 2003, until February 2005, when Takayama, Gifu merged with nine surrounding municipalities. The total area is .〔()〕 Shizuoka is currently the 5th largest city in Japan in terms of geographic area after Takayama, Hamamatsu, Nikkō, and Kitami. It is also the 2nd largest city in Shizuoka Prefecture in terms of both geographic area and population after Hamamatsu, but ranks higher as an Urban Employment Area,〔 and leads as a metropolitan area and business region. The fan-like shape of the Shizuoka Plain and Miho Peninsula were formed over the ages by the fast-flowing Abe River carrying along collapsed sand and earth. These areas form the foundations of the city today.〔 The isolated Mount Kuno separates the Suruga coastline from the Shimizu coastline. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shizuoka, Shizuoka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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