Fujisawa, Kanagawa

Fujisawa (藤沢市, Fujisawa-shi) is a Japanese city in Kanagawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Fujisawa, Kanagawa"  in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 199.

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.Nussbaum, "Tōkaidō"  at p. 973.

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/ ; 

Category:Cities in Kanagawa Prefecture