Mishima, Shizuoka

Mishima (三島市, Mishima-shi) is a Japanese city in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture on the island of Honshū.

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History

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

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

In the Edo period, Mishima-juku was the 11th of the 53 shogunate-maintained waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto.

Related pages

• The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

Other websites

• http://www.city.mishima.shizuoka.jp/foreign/e/index.html# Archived 2011-01-26 at the Wayback Machine(in Japanese)