板橋区
The were one of the three sites in the vicinity of Edo (the forerunner of present-day Tokyo, Japan) where the Tokugawa shogunate executed criminals in the Edo period. Located near Itabashi-shuku, the first post station from Edo on the Nakasendō (a major inland route to Kyoto), it is within the city limits of modern-day Itabashi, Tokyo near JR Itabashi Station.