Fujisawa, Kanagawa

Fujisawa (藤沢市, Fujisawa-shi) is a Japanese city in Kanagawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū. History In the Edo period, Fujisawa-shuku was 6th of the 53 shogunate-maintained waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto. The area of the city expanded around Yugyō-ji temple (遊行寺) after 1325. Related pages The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō References Other websites http://www.city.fujisawa.kanagawa.jp/introduce/english/ Archived 2014-09-06 at the Wayback Machine; (in Japanese)