 During the Edo period, was a remote village adjacent to the , one of the 53 stations of Tōkaidō.Upon being demanded by the United States, the Tokugawa shogunate declared "Yokohama-mura" to be a part of "Kanagawa", and then opened its port.The Tokugawa government chose the remotely located "Yokohama-mura", to prevent foreigners from entering the bustling "Kanagawa-juku".