Ōiso, Kanagawa

Ōiso (大磯町, Ōiso-machi) is a Japanese town in Kanagawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū.

History

Main page: List of the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō

Ōiso — ukiyo-e woodblock print by Hiroshige, circa 1830s

In the Edo period, Ōiso-juku was 8th of the 53 shogunate-maintained waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto.

Geography

Ōiso is on the coastline of Sagami Bay.

Related pages

• The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

Other websites

• Town of Oiso website (English); (Japanese)