Toda, city, Saitama ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the alluvial plain of the Ara River. During the Tokugawa era (1603–1867) it was a post town and ferry station. The city is now linked to Tokyo city by bridge and has developed into an industrial suburb of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area. Toda Park contains the boat-racing course used in the Tokyo Olympic Games of 1964. Pop. (2005) 116,696; (2010) 123,079.