Ōtsu-juku

Hiroshige's print of Ōtsu-juku, part of the The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō series

Ōtsu-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

Ōtsu-juku (大津宿, Ōtsu-juku) was the last of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō, as well as the last of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It was 14 km (9 mi) from the previous post town, Kusatsu-juku,^[1] and was located in Ōmi Province. It is currently located in the present-day city of Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.

History

Ōtsu-juku was a rather large post town, with approximately 350 homes, two honjin, a secondary honjin and 71 inns for other travelers.^[1]

Neighboring post towns

Nakasendō & Tōkaidō: Kusatsu-juku - Ōtsu-juku - Sanjō Ōhashi
Ōsaka Kaidō (extended Tōkaidō): Kusatsu-juku - Ōtsu-juku - Fushimi-juku

References

1 2 Tōkaidō 53: Ōtsu-juku. Kōhei Wada. Accessed July 17, 2007.

Stations of the Tōkaidō

Musashi	Nihonbashi Shinagawa Kawasaki Kanagawa Hodogaya

Sagami	Totsuka Fujisawa Hiratsuka Ōiso Odawara Hakone

Izu	Mishima

Suruga	Numazu Hara-juku Yoshiwara Kanbara Yui Okitsu Ejiri Fuchū Mariko Okabe Fujieda Shimada

Tōtōmi	Kanaya Nissaka Kakegawa Fukuroi Mitsuke Hamamatsu Maisaka Arai Shirasuka

Mikawa	Futagawa Yoshida Goyu Akasaka Fujikawa Okazaki Chiryū

Owari	Narumi Miya

Ise	Kuwana Yokkaichi Ishiyakushi Shōno Kameyama Seki Sakashita

Ōmi	Tsuchiyama Minakuchi Ishibe Kusatsu Ōtsu

Yamashiro	Sanjō Ōhashi

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°00′21.5″N 135°51′41.1″E / 35.005972°N 135.861417°E / 35.005972; 135.861417

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