Odawara, Kanagawa
Odawara (小田原市, Odawara-shi) is a Japanese city in Kanagawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū.[1]
It has been recognized as a special city since 2000.[2]
History
In the Edo period, Odawara-juku was 9th of the 53 shogunate-maintained waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto.[3]
During the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923, most Odawara buildings collapsed immediately, and fires burned anything left standing.[4]
Geography
The borders of Odawara are the Hakone Mountains to the north and west, the Sakawa River to the east, and Sagami Bay to the south.
Odawara, Kanagawa Media
Japanese Odawara skyline (shot from west to east), with the foreground featuring the Sagami Bay Hayakawa Junction on Japan National Route 1.
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Odawara Castle Keep Tower in Odawara, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
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Odawara-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō
Odawara City Hall
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Related pages
References
- ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Odawara" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 735.
- ↑ Jacobs, A.J. "Japan's Evolving Nested Municipal Hierarchy: The Race for Local Power in the 2000s," Urban Studies Research (2011), Table 3; retrieved 2012-12-18.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Tōkaidō" at p. 973.
- ↑ Hammer, Joshua. (2006). Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II, p. 113.
Other websites
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- Odawara City website (in Japanese)
- http://www.kanagawa-kankou.or.jp/english/area/odawara.html Archived 2011-02-10 at the Wayback Machine,
