Iwamurada-shuku

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

Iwamurada-shuku (岩村田宿, Iwamurada-shuku) was the twenty-second of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day city of Saku, in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

History

Originally, Iwamurada-shuku was a castle town for the Iwamurada Han and, as a post town, it never developed a proper honjin, though it did have some smaller inns.^[1]

Neighboring Post Towns

Nakasendō: Otai-shuku - Iwamurada-shuku - Shionada-shuku

References

↑ Shinshū no Kaidō Tanbō: Nakasendō. Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Accessed August 10, 2007.

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°16′21″N 138°28′42″E / 36.2726°N 138.4783°E / 36.2726; 138.4783