An invitation to join an official procession to Kyoto in 1832 gave Hiroshige the opportunity to travel along the Tōkaidō route that linked the two capitals.He sketched the scenery along the way, and when he returned to Edo he produced the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō , which contains some of his best-known prints. [9] Hiroshige built on the series' success by following it with others, such as the Illustrated Places of Naniwa (1834), Famous Places of Kyoto (1835), another Eight Views of Ōmi (1834).As he had never been west of Kyoto, Hiroshige-based his illustrations of Naniwa (modern Osaka ) and Ōmi Province on pictures found in books and paintings. [10]