Kuwana, Mie

Kuwana 桑名市
City
Kiso Three Rivers and Ise Bay from Mount Tado
Flag Emblem
Location of Kuwana in Mie Prefecture
Kuwana
Coordinates: 35°4′N 136°41′E
Country	Japan
Region	Kansai
Prefecture	Mie Prefecture
Government
• Mayor	Narutaka Ito
Area
• Total	136.61 km2 (52.75 sq mi)
Population  (October 2017)
• Total	140,051
• Density	1,030/km2 (2,700/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+9 (Japan Standard Time)
- Tree	Flowering Dogwood
- Flower	Japanese iris
Phone number	0594-24-1136
Address	2-37 Chūōchō, Kuwana-shi, Mie-ken 511-8601
Website	www.city.kuwana.lg.jp

Kuwana (桑名市, Kuwana-shi) is a Japanese city in Mie Prefecture on the island of Honshū.

History

See the main article: List of the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō

In the Edo period, Kuwana-juku was 42nd of the 53 shogunate-maintained waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto.

Gallery

• 
  Kuwana rest stop by Hiroshige, ukiyo-e woodblock print c. 1830s
• 
  Ishidori Matsuri, annual festival in August

Related pages

• The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

Other websites

Media related to Kuwana, Mie at Wikimedia Commons

• Kuwana City website (in Japanese)
• Hiroshige prints, Kuwana Archived 2012-01-30 at the Wayback Machine