is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, Hodogaya Ward had an estimated population of 205,887 and a density of . The total area was .
Hodogaya Ward is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture, and near the geographic center of the city of Yokohama. The area is largely flatland, with scattered small hills.
The area around present-day Hodogaya has been inhabited for thousands of years. Archaeologists have found stone tools from the Japanese Paleolithic period and ceramic shards from the Jà Âmon period at numerous locations in the area. Under the Nara period Ritsuryà  system, it became part of Tachibana District and Tsutsuki District in Musashi Province. By the Heian period it was part of a huge shà Âen controlled by Ise Shrine and administered by the Hangaya clan, a subsidiary of the Hatakeyama clan. By the Kamakura period, the Hatakeyama clan ruled as local warlords until their territories were seized by the Later Hà Âjà  clan from Odawara in the late Muromachi period. After the defeat of the Hà Âjà  at the Battle of Odawara, the territory came under the control of Tokugawa Ieyasu. It was administered as tenryà  territory controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate, but administered through various hatamoto. The area prospered in the Edo period as Hodogaya-juku, a post station on the Tà Âkaidà  connecting Edo with Kyoto.
After the Meiji Restoration, the area was transferred to the new Kanagawa Prefecture, and Hodogaya Town was established on April 1, 1889, two years after the completion of Hodogaya Station on the Tà Âkaidà  Main Line railway connecting Tokyo with Osaka. Hodogaya suffered severe damage from the 1923 Great Kantà  earthquake. On October 1, 1927, it was annexed by the neighboring city of Yokohama, becoming Hodogaya Ward. The area suffered greatly again during the Yokohama air raid of May 29, 1945.
In a major administrative reorganization of October 1, 1969, Hodogaya gave up a large area the new Asahi Ward, and gained a portion of the territory of KÃ Âhoku Ward.
Hodogaya Ward is largely a regional commercial center and bedroom community for central Yokohama and Tokyo. Formerly a number of chemical, glass and electronics companies maintained factories in Hodogaya, but with the exception of the head offices of Furakawa Battery Company Ltd., all have relocated to less densely populated areas. There is some residual agriculture in Hodogaya Ward, primarily potatoes and cabbage.
University:
Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education operates prefectural high schools. Prefectural senior high schools:
Municipal high schools of the :
Private high schools:
The board of education operates public elementary and junior high schools.
Junior high schools:
Additionally Karuisawa Junior High School (軽äºÂæ²¢ä¸Âå¦校), which has its campus outside of Hodogaya-ku, has a zone that includes portions of Hodogaya-ku.
Elementary schools:
Former:
Additionally, the zones of Higashi Shinano Elementary (æ±åÂÂæ¿Âå°Âå¦校), Mitsuzawa Elementary (), Miyagaya Elementary (), and Sakaigi Elementary (), schools not in Hodogaya-ku, include portions of Hodogaya-ku.