Mariko-juku

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Mariko-juku (鞠子宿, Mariko-juku^?) was the twentieth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in Suruga-ku in Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It could also be written as 丸子宿 (Mariko-juku).

[edit] History

Mariko-juku was one of the smallest post stations on the Tōkaidō.^[1] Old row-houses from the Edo period can be found between Mariko-juku and Okabe-shuku, its neighboring post station, in Utsuinotani. This post town also had strong ties to the Minamoto, Imagawa and Tokugawa clans.

[edit] Neighboring post towns

Tōkaidō

Fuchū-shuku - Mariko-juku - Okabe-juku

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