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Shiroyama, Sagamihara — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Shiroyama was a town of Tsukui District in Kanagawa Prefecture; the roll of Sagamihara carries it as a district of 19.9 square kilometres.
About Shiroyama
Where to stay in Shiroyama
Not every neighbourhood fits every trip — here's what each one is good for.
The Kawajiri Stone Age Site is the one named draw a Shiroyama booking can be built around, and its 19.9 square kilometres hold no hotel row of the kind Sagamihara can offer. Rooms are scarce out here. Anyone whose day runs to the stone-age ground itself gains from a bed nearby, while a first visit to Kanagawa Prefecture is better arranged from the city's own stock.
About Shiroyama
What are the main landmarks in Shiroyama?
One site carries the district. The Kawajiri Stone Age Site is the single entry the register fixes inside Shiroyama, prehistoric ground rather than a built monument, and nothing else across these 19.9 square kilometres is listed beside it. Sagamihara holds the rest.
Kanagawa Prefecture supplies the wider list for anyone unwilling to spend a whole day at Kawajiri.
What is the history of Shiroyama?
1955 is the date on the record. Shiroyama stood then as a town of Tsukui District in Kanagawa Prefecture, and the Kawajiri Stone Age Site inside it reaches back far past any municipal founding to the prehistoric occupation of the same ground. The town no longer stands alone.
Its 19.9 square kilometres sit on the Sagamihara roll, and the older Tsukui District name survives only in the record.
Where is Shiroyama?
Shiroyama covers 19.9 square kilometres of Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture, ground once counted as part of Tsukui District.
Updated September 2026