A Guide to the Government Office

The Shizuoka Prefecture Government Office is located a 10 minutes walk from Shizuoka JR Station. The office is situated on the grounds of the old Sunpu Castle, which was built in 1585 by the great Edo period Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. The government offices are housed in four buildings including an annex building. The Annex Building, which was constructed in 1996, functions as the prefectural government’s disaster control headquarters to be used in the case of a natural disaster or emergency, such as the so-called Tokai Earthquake, a large earthquake predicted to hit the region someday in the future. The annex has an observation deck on its 21st floor that can be visited free of charge. The Government Office’s main building, which was built in 1937, is a five-story reinforced concrete structure, which has been designated by the Japanese government as a tangible cultural property of the nation.