Yawata-shuku

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

Yawata-shuku (八幡宿, Yawata-shuku) was the twenty-fourth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day city of Saku, in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

## History[edit]

Yawata-shuku is located on the west bank of the Shinano River, just across from Shionada-shuku, the preceding post town. Though these two post towns are located not much more than 500 meters away, Yawata-shuku was able to develop during the Keichō era in the early Edo period. It was a comparatively small post town,[1] but its prosperity came from it serving as a rest area at times when the Shinano River could not be crossed and as a distribution center for rice.

## Neighboring post towns[edit]

Nakasendō
Shionada-shuku \- Yawata-shuku \- Mochizuki-shuku

## References[edit]

1. ^ Yawata-juku. JTB Corporation. Accessed August 3, 2007.

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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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