Nakatsugawa-juku

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

Hiroshige's second print of Nakatsugawa-juku in the series

Nakatsugawa-juku (中津川宿, Nakatsugawa-juku) was the forty-fifth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day city of Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. During the Edo period, Nakatsugawa-juku reached a population of over 1,230 people and contained over 175 homes.^[1] There are many historical artifacts remaining today, including a stone monument with a haiku written by Matsuo Bashō.^[2]

Neighboring post towns

Nakasendō: Ochiai-juku - Nakatsugawa-juku - Ōi-juku

References

↑ Records of Post Towns on the Nakasendo. Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Chubu Division. Accessed July 10, 2007.
↑ Nakatsugawa-juku. You Yuu Tokai. Accessed July 10, 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°29′45.3″N 137°30′09.6″E / 35.495917°N 137.502667°E / 35.495917; 137.502667

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 3/17/2013. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.