Mitake-juku

Hiroshige's print of Mitake-juku, part of the The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō series

Mitake-juku (御嶽宿, Mitake-juku) was the forty-ninth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day town of Mitake, Kani District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

History

Mitake-juku was originally established as a temple town, located around Gankō-ji Temple (願興寺). However, when the Nakasendō was established in the Edo period, it became one of the original Nakasendō post towns.^[1] Travelers often came straight to Mitake-juku to avoid the difficult paths near Hosokute-juku.^[1]

Neighboring Post Towns

Nakasendō: Hosokute-juku - Mitake-juku - Fushimi-juku

References

1 2 Nakasendo Mitake-juku. Ibisoku Co., Ltd. Accessed July 11, 2007.

Stations of the Nakasendō

Musashi	Nihonbashi Itabashi Warabi Urawa Ōmiya Ageo Okegawa Kōnosu Fukiage (ai no shuku) Kumagai Fukaya Honjō

Kōzuke	Shinmachi Kuragano (intersects with Nikkō Reiheishi Kaidō) Takasaki Itahana Annaka Matsuida Sakamoto

Shinano	Karuisawa Kutsukake Oiwake Otai Iwamurada Shionada Yawata Mochizuki Motai (ai no shuku) Ashida Nagakubo Wada Shimosuwa (intersects with Kōshū Kaidō) Shiojiri (intersects with Shio no Michi) Seba Motoyama Niekawa Narai Yabuhara Miyanokoshi Fukushima Agematsu Suhara Nojiri Midono Tsumago

Mino	Magome Ochiai Nakatsugawa Ōi Ōkute Hosokute Mitake Fushimi Ōta Unuma Shinkanō (ai no shuku) Kanō Gōdo Mieji Akasaka Tarui Sekigahara Imasu

Ōmi	Kashiwabara Samegai Banba Toriimoto Takamiya Echigawa Musa Moriyama (merges with Tōkaidō to Sanjō Ōhashi) Kusatsu Ōtsu

Yamashiro	Sanjō Ōhashi

Coordinates: 35°25′47.6″N 137°07′49.5″E / 35.429889°N 137.130417°E / 35.429889; 137.130417

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