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Fujisawa: Shojoko Temple Shojoko Temple, Fujisawa, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan.

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Fujisawa, city, southern Kanagawa ken (prefecture), east-central Honshu, Japan. It is situated on Sagami Bay of the Pacific Ocean, between Chigasaki (west) and Kamakura (east). During the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867), Fujisawa was a post town on the Tōkaidō (“Eastern Sea Road”)—the main historic land route between Edo (Tokyo) and Kyōto. After the Tōkaidō Line (railway) was opened in 1889, Fujisawa grew as a residential suburb of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area. The northern part of...

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