Honjō-shuku

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Keisai Eisen's print of Honjō-shuku, part of the The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō series

Honjō-shuku (本庄宿 Honjō-shuku) was the tenth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day city of Honjō, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

History

There are no remnants of the Edo period post town today; however, there are still many Western-style buildings from the following Meiji period in Honjō.^[1] The Honjō police station that was built during the Meiji period now serves as a historical museum for the city.^[1]

Neighboring Post Towns

Nakasendō: Fukaya-shuku - Honjō-shuku - Shinmachi-shuku

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Nakasendō Kaze no Tabi: Michi Annai. Terebi Saitama. Accessed August 23, 2007.

v t e 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

Coordinates: 36°14′25″N 139°11′29″E / 36.2404°N 139.1915°E

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