Odawara, Kanagawa
city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Odawara (小田原市, Odawara-shi) is a Japanese city in Kanagawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū.[1]
It has been recognized as a special city since 2000.[2]
History
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In the Edo period, Odawara-juku was 9th of the 53 shogunate-maintained waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto.[3]
During the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923, most Odawara buildings collapsed immediately, and fires burned anything left standing.[4]
Geography
changeThe borders of Odawara are the Hakone Mountains to the north and west, the Sakawa River to the east, and Sagami Bay to the south.
Related pages
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change- ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Odawara" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 735.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Tōkaidō" at p. 973.
- ↑ Hammer, Joshua. (2006). Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire that Helped Forge the Path to World War II, p. 113.
Other websites
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Odawara, Kanagawa.
- Odawara City website (in Japanese)
- http://www.kanagawa-kankou.or.jp/english/area/odawara.html Archived 2011-02-10 at the Wayback Machine,
