High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yamato is a city located in central Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the city had an estimated population of 225,866 and a density of 8,320 persons per km². The total area was 27.06 km². The area around present-day Yamato city has been inhabited for thousands of years. Archaeologists have found stone tools from the Japanese Paleolithic period and ceramic shards from the Jomon period at numerous locations in the area. It is mentioned in the Engishiki records from the Heian period. By the Kamakura period, this area part of the Shibuya sh en. It came under control of the Ashikaga clan in the early Muromachi period and was later part of the territories of the Late H j clan from Odawara. With the start of the Edo period, the area was part of the tenry territory in Sagami Province controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate, but administered through various hatamoto.