View from Koyasumura, a village northeast of Kanagawa, towards the new town of Yokohama, on the southwest shore of the bay

Near the bottom margin of the map, the Tokaido, the busy highway linking Edo and Kyoto, runs along the near shoreline. Toward the right, the road passes through Kanagawa, the post town that was specified by the treaties of 1858 as the site for foreign commerce and residence.