Fushimi-juku (Nakasendō)

For the post station on the Tōkaidō, see Fushimi-juku (Tōkaidō).

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

Fushimi-juku (伏見宿, Fushimi-juku) was the fiftieth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day town of Mitake, Kani District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

History

During the Edo period, as the nearby post towns, such as Mitake-juku and Ōta-juku, began to flourish, Fushimi-juku was built up to take part in the popular travel route.^[1] However, because a national highway goes directly over the spot where the old post town was located, there are no traces of the old row houses that spanned approximately 600 m (1,969 ft).^[1]

Neighboring Post Towns

Nakasendō: Mitake-juku - Fushimi-juku - Ōta-juku
Uwa Kaidō (connects the Nakasendō with Nagoya Castle): Fushimi-juku (starting location) - Dota-juku (土田宿)

References

1 2 Nakasendo Fushimi-juku. Ibisoku Co., Ltd. Accessed July 11, 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: 35°26′20.6″N 137°05′12.6″E / 35.439056°N 137.086833°E / 35.439056; 137.086833

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