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Mizonokuchi, Kawasaki — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Mizonokuchi is a district of Kawasaki whose one recorded landmark, the Oyama Kaido Furusatokan, takes its name from the Oyama Kaido.
About Mizonokuchi
Where to stay in Mizonokuchi
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The Oyama Kaido Furusatokan is the one address in Mizonokuchi a visitor is likely to have marked in advance, which sets the terms for a stay here. Rooms sit among ordinary Kawasaki streets. That has an upside: Kawasaki lies between Tokyo and Yokohama, so a bed in Mizonokuchi keeps both cities inside a manageable day's travel.
If you want a plain base in Kanagawa Prefecture with nothing to compete for your attention beyond the Oyama Kaido Furusatokan, Mizonokuchi answers.
About Mizonokuchi
What are the main landmarks in Mizonokuchi?
One entry, and no more. The Oyama Kaido Furusatokan is the only landmark the register attaches to Mizonokuchi, and the road name it carries, the Oyama Kaido, is the one piece of older geography the entry preserves. Everything larger belongs to Kawasaki, whose own list runs to the Kawasaki Ukiyo-e Gallery and the Kawasui Kawasaki Aquarium.
Neither of those stands here.
What is the history of Mizonokuchi?
No date opens this record. Mizonokuchi carries no founding year in the gazetteer, and the datable event nearby belongs to the parent city, which was founded in 1924 within Kanagawa Prefecture. What history the district's own entry holds is embedded in a name: the Oyama Kaido, the route the hall's title preserves.
The longer account belongs to Kawasaki. Nothing dates the Oyama Kaido Furusatokan itself.
Where is Mizonokuchi?
Within Kawasaki, Mizonokuchi occupies part of a city in Kanagawa Prefecture that sits between Tokyo and Yokohama.
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Updated August 2026