Hitachi Province
province of Japan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hitachi Province (常陸国, Hitachi no Kuni) was an old province of Japan in the area of Ibaraki Prefecture on the island of Honshū.[1] It was sometimes called Jōshū (常州).
The province had borders with Iwashiro, Iwaki, Shimōsa, and Shimotsuke Provinces.
The ancient capital city of the province was near Ishioka.