Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka

is one of three wards of the city of Shizuoka.

The municipality was "Shimizu City" until it merged with Shizuoka in 2005. "Shimizu," Encyuclopedia Britannica; retrieved 2012-9-26.

History

Shimizu developed around its good natural harbor. 

In the Edo period, , ,  and  were the 15-18th of the 53 shogunate-maintained waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto.  These four way-stations were in the area of modern Shimizu.Nussbaum, "Tōkaidō"  at p. 973.

Geography
Shimizu is located on the coast of Suruga Bay of the Pacific Ocean.   

Related pages
 The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

References

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Category:Settlements in Shizuoka Prefecture