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The Katase River (片瀬川)
is the name of a segment of a river in
Shonan, which is in central Japan, about 50 kilometers southwest of
Tokyo.
The Katase River refers to the approximately
3-kilometer-long segment of the river from the city of
Fujisawa (藤沢),
where the Sakai (境川)
and Kashio (柏尾川)
rivers join, to the point at
Enoshima Island, where the Katase River flows into
Sagami Bay. The river's name comes from the Katase complex of hills (片瀬山)
along which the river flows.
The Katase River and its tributaries are prone to
flooding, especially in spring and the typhoon season in late summer and
early autumn. Consequently, they were encased in concrete in the postwar
period. Nowadays, they still flood, but don't overflow their banks as often
as in the past.
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