Matsuida-shuku

Matsuida-shuku (松井田宿, Matsuida-shuku) was the sixteenth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day city of Annaka, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, at the foot of Mount Myōgi.

Mount Myōgi, which overlooks the post station
Hiroshige's print of Matsuida-shuku, part of the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō

Travel towards Kyoto

Usuinoseki Checkpoint was one of the four major checkpoints along the Nakasendō and was between Matsuida-shuku and Sakamoto-shuku. Travelers who wanted to avoid this checkpoint could make use of a hime kaidō that would take them over the mountains and to Oiwake-shuku, the twentieth station on the Nakasendō.[1]

Neighboring Post Towns
Nakasendō
Annaka-shuku - Matsuida-shuku - Sakamoto-shuku

References
  1. Hiroshige — Kisokaido Archived 2007-10-29 at the Wayback Machine. www.hiroshige.org.uk. Accessed October 24, 2007.

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