Ochiai-juku

Ochiai-juku (落合宿, Ochiai-juku) was the forty-fourth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day city of Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The honjin and the sub-honjin, as well as some old street lights, remain from the Edo period.^[1] The Honjin were the main rest areas in old post towns and very few remain today.^[1] There are ten hills that must be traversed to get to Ochiai-juku from the preceding post town of Magome-juku.^[2]

Neighboring post towns

Nakasendō

Magome-juku - Ochiai-juku - Nakatsugawa-juku

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gifu Sightseeing Guide: Walking Amidst History and Nature. Gifu Prefecture Tourist Federation. Accessed July 10, 2007.
2. ↑ Nakasendo Journal: Ochiai. Siroihana. Accessed July 10, 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: 35°30′41.7″N 137°31′51.6″E / 35.511583°N 137.531000°E / 35.511583; 137.531000