Kawasaki, Kanagawa

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Kawasaki (川崎市code: ja is deprecated , Kawasaki-shi) is a Japanese city in Kanagawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū. Kawasaki is one of three ordinance-designated cities in Kanagawa.

History

Main page: List of the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō

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Kawasaki — ukiyo-e woodblock print by Hiroshige, circa 1830s

In the Edo period, Kawasaki-juku was 2nd of the 53 shogunate-maintained waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto.

Geography

Kawasaki occupies a belt of land stretching about 30 km along the south bank of the Tama River. The river forms its boundary with Tokyo.

Wards

In Kawasaki, there are seven wards:

• Kawasaki
• Saiwai
• Nakahara
• Takatsu
• Tama
• Miyamae
• Aso

Kawasaki, Kanagawa Media

• The Kawasaki port connects seamlessly with the neighboring ports Yokohama in the southwest and Tokyo in the northeast (2007).

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  downtown of Kawasaki in Kanagawa, Japan, on the right bank of river Tama

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  Map of the wards in Kawasaki.

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  Keihin industrial Zone (Kawasaki)

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  The Heiken-ji is a Buddhist temple in Kawasaki, better known as Kawasaki-daishi (川 崎 大師).

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  State Railroad D51 steam locomotive in Ikuta Ryokuchi

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  The Fujiko･F･Fujio Museum

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  The railway network around Kawasaki (northeast area in this map)

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  The area around Kawasaki Station

Related pages

• The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
• Kawasaki Frontale

Other websites

• http://www.city.kawasaki.jp/index_e.htm Archived 2006-12-12 at the Wayback Machine, (in Japanese) Archived 2021-01-16 at the Wayback Machine