Minakuchi-juku

Minakuchi-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (Women with the famous local product, kanpyo)

Minakuchi-juku (水口宿, Minakuchi-juku) was the fiftieth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in the present-day city of Kōka, in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.

History

This post station was developed as early as the Muromachi period, as its location was convenient for travelers going to Ise Shrine and Ise Bay. On the eastern border of Minakuchi-juku, the road split into three paths. On the western border, the post station also served as a castle town for Minakuchi Castle and was an important travel route.

Neighboring post towns

Tōkaidō: Tsuchiyama-juku - Minakuchi-juku - Ishibe-juku

Stations of the Tōkaidō

Musashi	Nihonbashi Shinagawa Kawasaki Kanagawa Hodogaya

Sagami	Totsuka Fujisawa Hiratsuka Ōiso Odawara Hakone

Izu	Mishima

Suruga	Numazu Hara-juku Yoshiwara Kanbara Yui Okitsu Ejiri Fuchū Mariko Okabe Fujieda Shimada

Tōtōmi	Kanaya Nissaka Kakegawa Fukuroi Mitsuke Hamamatsu Maisaka Arai Shirasuka

Mikawa	Futagawa Yoshida Goyu Akasaka Fujikawa Okazaki Chiryū

Owari	Narumi Miya

Ise	Kuwana Yokkaichi Ishiyakushi Shōno Kameyama Seki Sakashita

Ōmi	Tsuchiyama Minakuchi Ishibe Kusatsu Ōtsu

Yamashiro	Sanjō Ōhashi

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