Numazu
city in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Numazu (沼津市, Numazu-shi) is a Japanese city in Shizuoka Prefecture on the island of Honshū.
It has been recognized as a special city since 2000.[1]
History
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In the Edo period, Numazu-juku and Hara-juku was the 12th and 13th of 53 shogunate-maintained waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto.[2] Both Tōkaidō rest stops are within the boundaries of modern Numazu.
Related pages
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change- ↑ 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, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Tōkaidō" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 973.
Other websites
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Numazu, Shizuoka.
- http://www.city.numazu.shizuoka.jp/living_in/english.htm Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine, (in Japanese)
