page_title: Iwata, Shizuoka
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Iwata, Shizuoka / History
caption_attribution_description: Mitsuke on the Tokaido, ukiyo-e prints by Hiroshige
context_page_description: Iwata is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan. It is on the Tenryū River.
  Iwata is made of 5 communities merged together: kyu-Iwata, Toyoda-cho, Fukude-cho, Ryuyo-cho, Toyoka-mura.
  Part of Yamaha Corporation is in Iwata.
context_section_description: There has been a settlement in the area of Iwata since ancient times.
  During the Edo period, Mitsuke-juku was one of 53 government waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road, which was a coastal route that ran from Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto.
caption: The view at Mitsuke-juku by Hiroshige in the 1830s
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