Arai-juku
Arai-juku (新居宿, Arai-juku) was the thirty-first of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in the city of Kosai, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. During the Edo period, it was located in Tōtōmi Province. The kanji for the post station were originally also written as 荒江 and 荒井 (Arai).
History
Arai-juku was located on the western shores of Lake Hamana (浜名湖, Hamana-ko). Travelers crossed the lake to reach Maisaka-juku, the previous post station on the Tōkaidō. Though there were many checkpoints along the Tōkaidō, the Arai Checkpoint is the only one that existed both on land and on the water.
Both the checkpoint and post station were often damaged from earthquakes and
The Kii-no-kuni-ya (紀伊の国屋), a preserved hatago (旅籠) still remaining today, served as a rest spot for official travelers coming from Kii Province further south. It is now a local history museum.[1]
The classic
Neighboring post towns
- Tōkaidō
- Maisaka-juku - Arai-juku - Shirasuka-juku
Further reading
- 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
Media related to Arai-juku at Wikimedia Commons
- ^ Arai-juku Hatagao Kii-no-kuni-ya Shiryokan Archived April 1, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. (in Japanese) Town of Arai. Accessed March 7, 2008.