Odawara, Kanagawa

is a Japanese city in Kanagawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Odawara" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 735.

It has been recognized as a special city since 2000.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.

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.Nussbaum, "Tōkaidō"  at p. 973.

During the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923, most Odawara buildings collapsed immediately, and fires burned anything left standing.Hammer, Joshua. (2006).   Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II, p. 113.

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.

Related pages
 The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

References

Other websites

 Odawara City website 
 http://www.kanagawa-kankou.or.jp/english/area/odawara.html ,

Category:Cities in Kanagawa Prefecture