Fujisawa, Kanagawa

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

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.

The city expanded around Yugyō-ji after 1325.

Related pages

 * The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

Other websites

 * Fujisawa City website;