Warabi-shuku

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

Warabi-shuku (蕨宿, Warabi-shuku) was the second of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day city of Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, approximately 19km from the starting point in Nihonbashi.

History

Warabi was originally built up as a castle town during the Sengoku period for the Shibukawa family. During the Edo period, it became a post town along the Nakasendō. At its peak, it had a population of 2,223 people, with 430 homes, two honjin and one secondary honjin.^[1]

Neighboring Post Towns

Nakasendō: Itabashi-shuku - Warabi-shuku - Urawa-shuku

References

↑ Nakasendō Warabi-shuku. Warabi Shiseki Tanbohkai. Accessed July 17, 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

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