Iwata, Shizuoka

is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan. It is on the Tenryū River.
Iwata is made of 5 communities merged together: kyu-Iwata (former Iwata), Toyoda-cho, Fukude-cho, Ryuyo-cho, Toyoka-mura.
Part of Yamaha Corporation is in Iwata.
History.
There has been a settlement in the area of Iwata since ancient times.
During the Edo period, "Mitsuke-juku" was one of 53 government waystations ("shuku-eki") along the Tōkaidō road, which was a coastal route that ran from Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto.