Editing Chigasaki, Kanagawa (section)

==History==
The city has been inhabited since prehistoric times. The area was largely pasture and farmland well into the [[Edo period]]. The [[Tōkaidō (road)|Tōkaidō]] connecting [[Edo]] with [[Kyoto]] passed through what is now Chigasaki, without a [[shukuba|post station]]. A large part of the area was the ''[[tenryō]]'' territory in [[Sagami Province]] controlled directly by the [[Tokugawa Shogunate]] through the Edo period, though other parts were administered by small clans including the [[Ōoka clan]], which is renowned for its descendant [[Ōoka Tadasuke]]. After the start of the [[Meiji period]], the [[Tōkaidō Main Line]] railway connected [[Chigasaki Station]] with [[Tokyo]] and [[Osaka]] in 1898, which spurred the development of the area. Chigasaki village in [[Kōza District, Kanagawa|Kōza District]], Kanagawa Prefecture became Chigasaki town in 1908. In 1921, the [[Sagami Line]] railway connected Chigasaki with [[Hashimoto Station (Kanagawa)|Hashimoto]] to the north. Chigasaki became a [[Cities of Japan|city]] on October 1, 1947. On April 1, 2003, the population of Chigasaki exceeded 200,000 and it became a [[Special cities of Japan|special city]] with increased local autonomy. On October 24, 2014, Chigasaki agreed with [[Honolulu]] to establish the [[sister city]] relationship.<ref>[http://www.city.chigasaki.kanagawa.jp/_res/projects/default_project/_page_/001/002/769/cb56_specialissue.pdf Chigasaki Breeze The 56th Edition Special Issue, January 1, 2015]</ref>