Ōiso

is a Japanese town in Kanagawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū.

History

In the Edo period, Ōiso-juku was 8th of the 53 shogunate-maintained waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Tōkaidō"  in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 973.

Geography
Ōiso is on the coastline of Sagami Bay.

Related pages
 The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

References

 Other websites 

 Town of Oiso website ;   

Category:Towns in Japan
Category:Settlements in Kanagawa Prefecture