Hadano

Hadano, also spelled Hatano, city, southwest-central Kanagawa ken (prefecture), east-central Honshu, Japan. It lies inland from Sagami Bay (south), with the main built-up area in a river basin in the southern part of the city. Hadano stretches northward into the Tanzawa Mountains of western Kanagawa, reaching an elevation of 4,108 feet (1,252 metres) at Mount Ō (Ō-yama or Ōyama) on its northeastern border.

It was a regional commercial centre during the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867), when the cultivation of tobacco was introduced. The city is now a tobacco-trading centre, containing a processing plant of the Japanese Monopoly Bureau. Because of its convenient road and rail connections to Tokyo, Hadano is included in the Keihin Industrial Zone. It is the gateway to Tanzawa-Ōyama Quasi-national Park; Tsurumaki Spa lies within the city boundary. Pop. (2010) 170,145; (2015) 167,378.