Odawara-juku

It is located in the present-day city of Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

It was the first post station in a castle town that travelers came to when they exited Edo (modern-day Tokyo) in Edo period Japan.

Odawara-juku was established between the mountains of Hakone and Sagami Bay, near Odawara Castle.

[1] Located near the banks of the Sakawa River, Odawara-juku was a famous post station.

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Odawara-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō