Matsuida-shuku

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Mount Myōgi, which overlooks the post station
Hiroshige's print of Matsuida-shuku, part of the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaido Kisokaido16 Matsuida.jpg
Hiroshige's print of Matsuida-shuku, part of the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō

Matsuida-shuku(松井田宿,Matsuida-shuku) was the sixteenth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day city of Annaka, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, at the foot of Mount Myōgi.

69 Stations of the Nakasendō

The 69 Stations of the Nakasendō are the rest areas along the Nakasendō, which ran from Nihonbashi in Edo to Sanjō Ōhashi in Kyoto. The route stretched approximately 534 km (332 mi) and was an alternate trade route to the Tōkaidō.

Nakasendō

The Nakasendō, also called the Kisokaidō (木曾街道), was one of the five routes of the Edo period, and one of the two that connected Edo to Kyoto in Japan. There were 69 stations (staging-posts) between Edo and Kyoto, crossing through Musashi, Kōzuke, Shinano, Mino and Ōmi provinces. In addition to Tokyo and Kyoto, the Nakasendō runs through the modern-day prefectures of Saitama, Gunma, Nagano, Gifu and Shiga, with a total distance of about 534 km (332 mi).

Annaka, Gunma City in Kantō, Japan

Annaka is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of February 2015, the city had an estimated population of 58,675, and a population density of 212 persons per km². Its total area is 276.31 km².

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Travel towards Kyoto

Usuinoseki Checkpoint was one of the four major checkpoints along the Nakasendō and was between Matsuida-shuku and Sakamoto-shuku. Travelers who wanted to avoid this checkpoint could make use of a hime kaidō that would take them over the mountains and to Oiwake-shuku, the twentieth station on the Nakasendō. [1]

Sakamoto-shuku

Sakamoto-shuku was the seventeenth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day city of Annaka, Gunma Prefecture, Japan.

Hime kaidō was the name given to minor routes that created detours around the difficult crossings of main routes during the Edo period in Japan. These routes could be found on many of the Edo Five Routes, as well as on other sub-routes that crossed the country.

Oiwake-shuku

Oiwake-shuku was the twentieth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day town of Karuizawa, in the Kitasaku District of Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

Neighboring Post Towns

Nakasendō
Annaka-shuku - Matsuida-shuku - Sakamoto-shuku

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References

  1. Hiroshige — Kisokaido Archived 2007-10-29 at the Wayback Machine .. www.hiroshige.org.uk. Accessed October 24, 2007.

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