Kanō-juku

Kanō-juku (加納宿, Kanō-juku) was the fifty-third of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located just south of JR Gifu Station in Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. During the Edo period, it was an independent post town that was approximately 2.3 km (1.4 mi) wide,^[1] making it the largest post towns in Mino Province.^[2]

Kanō Tenman-gū is located in the former Kanō-juku and was built in concurrence with Kanō Castle shortly after the Battle of Sekigahara. It was originally built to serve as a place of worship for the castle's residents, but it eventually became a place of prayer for many people within the growing post town.^[1]

Princess Kazu stayed at Kanō-juku in 1861.

Neighboring post towns

Nakasendō

Unuma-juku - Kanō-juku - Gōdo-juku

(Shinkanō-juku was an ai no shuku located between Unuma-juku and Kanō-juku.)

References

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: 35°24′19.7″N 136°45′31.8″E / 35.405472°N 136.758833°E / 35.405472; 136.758833