was the eighth of the fifty-three stations ('' shukuba'') of the Tōkaidō. It is located in the present-day town of Ōiso, located in Naka District,

Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kanag ...

, Japan.

History

Ōiso-juku was established in 1601, along with the other original post stations along the Tōkaidō, by

Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, which ruled Japan from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fello ...

. In 1604, Ieyasu planted a colonnade of pine and hackberry trees, to provide shade for the travelers.Tōkaidō
Oiso Town Hall. Accessed November 5, 2007. The classic

ukiyo-e Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk t ...

print by Andō Hiroshige (''Hōeidō'' edition) from 1831–1834 depicts travelers in straw raincoats entering a village by the ocean during pouring rain. One is mounted, and the other is on foot. The road is lined with pine trees. By contrast, the ''Kyōka'' edition of the late 1830s depicts a prosperous village overlooking a wide expanse of

Sagami Bay lies south of Kanagawa Prefecture in Honshu, central Japan, contained within the scope of the Miura Peninsula, in Kanagawa, to the east, the Izu Peninsula, in Shizuoka Prefecture, to the west, and the Shōnan coastline to the north, while th ...

with the mountains of the Izu Peninsula on the far shore.

Neighboring post towns

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Hiratsuka-juku was the seventh of the fifty-three stations (''shukuba'') of the Tōkaidō. It is located in the present-day city of Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. History Hiratsuka-juku was first established in 1601, at the orders of Tokugawa Ieyasu ...

- Ōiso-juku -

Odawara-juku was the ninth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. 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 Tok ...

History

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