Tarui-juku

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tarui-juku (垂井宿, Tarui-juku^?) was the fifty-seventh of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day town of Tarui, Fuwa District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

[edit] History

Tarui-juku was divided into three parts: western, middle and eastern. Its honjin was located in the middle section. The post town itself served as a major transportation hub for western Mino Province, as it was one end point for the Minoji, which connected the Nakasendō with the Tōkaidō at Miya-juku.^[1]

[edit] Neighboring post towns

Nakasendō

Akasaka-juku - Tarui-juku - Sekigahara-juku

Minoji

Ōgaki-juku - Tarui-juku (ending location)

[edit] References