Echigawa-juku

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

Echigawa-juku's hatago

Echigawa-juku (愛知川宿, Echigawa-juku) was the sixty-fifth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in Aishō, Echi District, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.

History

Echigawa-juku has a long history. Kitabatake Akiie recorded his stay here in 1336 in the Taiheiki. It was originally a post town along the Tōsandō, before becoming part of the Nakasendō. In its heyday, it thrived as both a post town and a commercial center. For those who were heading to the Kantō region for trading, Echigawa was their traditional first stop along the Nakasendō.

In 1843, the post station had 929 residents and 199 buildings. Among the buildings, there was one honjin, two sub-honjin, and 28 hatago.

The current residents of the area surrounding the former Echigawa-juku often refer to it as the sixty-sixth stop along the Nakasendō, because they count Nihonbashi as the first stop, even though it is an endpoint.

Neighboring Post Towns

Nakasendō: Takamiya-juku - Echigawa-juku - Musa-juku

References

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°10′18.7″N 136°12′28.3″E / 35.171861°N 136.207861°E / 35.171861; 136.207861

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