Wada-shuku

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

Wada-shuku (和田宿, Wada-shuku) was the twenty-eighth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. Its present-day location is in the Wada section of the town of Nagawa, in the Chiisagata District of Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

History

Located at an elevation of 820 m (2,690 ft), at the entrance to the Wada Pass, it was considered a quiet mountain town. Because Shimosuwa-juku, the next post town, was over 20 km (12 mi) away, it flourished with over 150 buildings to accommodate all of the travelers and their pack animals.

Presently, there are remains of both the honjin and original houses, which are being restored and preserved. The area has also long been known for its vast resources of obsidian.^[1]

Neighboring Post Towns

Nakasendō: Nagakubo-shuku - Wada-shuku - Shimosuwa-shuku

References

↑ Nakasendō Wada-shuku Yorozuya. Yorozuya. Accessed July 31, 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

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