- Hiratsuka-juku
nihongo|Hiratsuka-juku|平塚宿|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 ofTokugawa Ieyasu . [http://hirahaku.jp/hakubutsukan_archive/sonota/00000083/image/00013234.pdf 11 Hiratsuka-juku] . Hiratsuka City Museum. Accessed November 5, 2007.] In1651 , though, it merged with part of the nearby village of Yawata. In1655 , it was renamed "Shinhiratsuka-juku."During a
census in1843 , the post station was found to have a population of 2,114 people and 443 houses, which included one "honjin ", 1 sub-"honjin" and 54 "hatago ".Neighboring post towns
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Fujisawa-shuku - Hiratsuka-juku -Ōiso-juku References
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