Kusatsu-juku

Kusatsu-juku (草津宿, Kusatsu-juku) was the fifty-second of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō as well as the sixty-eighth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the downtown area of the present-day city of Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.

Hiroshige's print of Kusatsu-juku in the 1830s, part of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō series
Hiroshige's print of Kusatsu-juku, part of the Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō series
Kusatsu-juku's honjin

History

Coming from Moriyama-juku, the borders of Kusatsu-juku started at the banks of the Kusatsu River to the present-day Miya-chō in Kusatsu. The famed ukiyo-e artist Hiroshige traveled through the post station using both the Tōkaidō and the Nakasendō in order to create woodblock prints.

In 1843, the post station of Kusatsu-juku had 2,351 residents and 586 buildings. Among the buildings, there were two honjin, two sub-honjin, and 72 hatago. Of the two honjin, one was constructed in 1635 and stood until 1870.[1] That honjin was later repaired and opened as a museum in 1996.[1]

Neighboring post towns
Nakasendō
Moriyama-juku - Kusatsu-juku - Ōtsu-juku
Tōkaidō
Ishibe-juku - Kusatsu-juku - Ōtsu-juku

References

Media related to Kusatsu-juku at Wikimedia Commons

  1. Kusatsu-shi, Kusatsu-juku. City of Kusatsu. Accessed July 17, 2007.

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