Odawara, Kanagawa
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It has been recognized as a special city since 2000.[2]
History
Main page: List of the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō
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
Odawara-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō
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
- Odawara City website (in Japanese)
- http://www.kanagawa-kankou.or.jp/english/area/odawara.html Archived 2011-02-10 at the Wayback Machine,