Numazu-juku

Twelfth of the 53 stations of the Tōkaidō in Japan

Numazu-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in the Hoeido edition of The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (1831-1834)

Numazu-juku (沼津宿, Numazu-juku) was the twelfth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in the present-day city of Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

## History

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Numazu was the easternmost post station within Suruga Province, and was the castle town of the daimyō of Numazu Domain. During its peak in the Edo period, Numazu-juku had over 1,200 buildings, including three honjin, one sub-honjin, and 55 hatago. Modern Numazu city has a local history museum displaying the history of the area.[1]

The classic ukiyo-e print by Andō Hiroshige (Hōeido edition) from 1831 to 1834 depicts travelers walking along a tree-lined river bank, towards Numazu-shuku, under a huge full moon in a deep blue sky. One of the travelers is wearing the white robes of a pilgrim, and is carrying a huge Tengu mask on his back, indicating that his destination is the famed Shinto shrine of Konpira on Shikoku.

## Neighboring post towns

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Tōkaidō
Mishima-shuku \- Numazu-juku \- Hara-juku

## Further reading

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* Carey, Patrick. Rediscovering the Old Tokaido:In the Footsteps of Hiroshige. Global Books UK (2000). ISBN 1-901903-10-9
* Chiba, Reiko. Hiroshige's Tokaido in Prints and Poetry. Tuttle. (1982) ISBN 0-8048-0246-7
* Taganau, Jilly. The Tokaido Road: Travelling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan. RoutledgeCurzon (2004). ISBN 0-415-31091-1

## References

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Media related to Numazu-juku at Wikimedia Commons

1. ^ Numazu-shi Cultural Property Archived 2007-11-12 at the Wayback Machine. City of Numazu. Accessed November 7, 2007.

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Stations of the Tōkaidō

Musashi|

* Nihonbashi
* Shinagawa
* Kawasaki
* Kanagawa
* Hodogaya

Sagami|

* Totsuka
* Fujisawa
* Hiratsuka
* Ōiso
* Odawara
* Hakone

Izu|

* Mishima

Suruga|

* Numazu
* Hara-juku
* Yoshiwara
* Kanbara
* Yui
* Okitsu
* Ejiri
* Fuchū
* Mariko
* Okabe
* Fujieda
* Shimada

Tōtōmi|

* Kanaya
* Nissaka
* Kakegawa
* Fukuroi
* Mitsuke
* Hamamatsu
* Maisaka
* Arai
* Shirasuka

Mikawa|

* Futagawa
* Yoshida
* Goyu
* Akasaka
* Fujikawa
* Okazaki
* Chiryū

Owari|

* Narumi
* Miya

Ise|

* Kuwana
* Yokkaichi
* Ishiyakushi
* Shōno
* Kameyama
* Seki
* Sakashita

Ōmi|

* Tsuchiyama
* Minakuchi
* Ishibe
* Kusatsu
* Ōtsu

Yamashiro|

* Sanjō Ōhashi

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