Kameyama, Mie
Kameyama
亀山市 | |
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Kameyama City Hall in Honmaru area | |
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Flag Seal | |
Location of Kameyama in Mie Prefecture | |
Kameyama | |
| Coordinates: 34°51′21″N 136°27′6″E / 34.85583°N 136.45167°E | |
| Country | Japan |
| Region | Kansai |
| Prefecture | Mie Prefecture |
| Government | |
| • -Mayor | Yoshiyuki Sakurai (since February 2009) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 190.91 km2 (73.71 sq mi) |
| Population (November 2012) | |
| • Total | 50,230 |
| • Density | 263/km2 (680/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+9 (Japan Standard Time) |
| - Tree | Cryptomeria |
| - Flower | Japanese iris |
| Phone number | 0595-82-1111 |
| Address | 577 Honmaru-cho, Kameyama-shi, Mie-ken 519-0195 |
| Website | www |
Kameyama (亀山市, Kameyama-shi) is a Japanese city in Mie Prefecture on the island of Honshū.
History
In the Edo period, Kameyama-juku, Seki-juku and Sakanoshita-juku were the 46th, 47th, and 48th of the 53 shogunate-maintained waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto.[1] All three Tōkaidō rest stops are within the boundaries of modern Numazu.
Gallery
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Seki rest stop by Hiroshige, c. 1830s
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Sakanoshita rest stop by Hiroshige, c. 1830s
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Stone wall at former Kameyama Castle
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Kameyama railway station, early Taishō period (1912–1926)
Related pages
References
Other websites
Media related to Kameyama, Mie at Wikimedia Commons
- Kameyama City website (in Japanese)
- Hiroshige prints, Kameyama Archived 2012-06-11 at the Wayback Machine, Seki Archived 2012-06-11 at the Wayback Machine, Sakanoshita Archived 2012-06-11 at the Wayback Machine