Hiratsuka, Kanagawa

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

It has been recognized as a special city since 2001.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, Hiratsuka-juku was 7th 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
Hiratsuka is located on the western Kantō region midway between Tokyo and Mount Fuji.  The city is on the coastline in the Sagami Bay.

Related pages
 The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
 Shonan Bellmare

References

 Other websites 

 http://www.city.hiratsuka.kanagawa.jp/index-e.htm ; http://www.city.hiratsuka.kanagawa.jp/index.htm 

Category:Cities in Kanagawa Prefecture