Yoshida, Shizuoka

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This article is about the town in Shizuoka, Japan. There are towns with the same name (吉田町) in four other prefectures in Japan, see Yoshida, Ehime, Yoshida, Kagoshima, Yoshida, Niigata, Yoshida, Saitama.

Yoshida (吉田町; -chou) is a town located in Haibara District, southern Shizuoka, Japan.

As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 28,080 and a density of 1,347.41 persons per km². The total area is 20.84 km².

Eel and iceberg lettuce are specialties of Yoshida. The town's Koyama castle was built by Takeda-clan, a well-known samurai clan in the Sengoku period in 1568.

[edit] External links

• Yoshida official website in Japanese
• Spit-cooked eel shop in Japanese
• Potato chips and old japanese-style sweet potato snacks shop in Japanese
• Kataoka-jinja (Commonly called "Sumiyoshi-jinja")(Jinja means Shinto shrine)

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