Hakone-juku
Hakone-juku (箱根宿, Hakone-juku) was the tenth of the
bakufu
to maintain.
History
Hakone-juku was established in 1618, in a small area between Hakone Pass (on Mount Hakone) and the Hakone Checkpoint.[1] The original Hakone-juku was on the Edo (modern-day Tokyo) side of the Hakone Checkpoint; however, the people living there at the time refused to build a honjin to create a new post station. As a result, the post town was developed on the side of the checkpoint heading towards Kyoto. The first settlers in the new post town originally lived in either Odawara-juku or Mishima-shuku, the neighboring post stations, but were forced to Hakone-juku.
Neighboring post towns
- Tōkaidō
- Odawara-juku – Hakone-juku – Mishima-shuku
References
- ^ Hakone-juku o Aruku. Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Retrieved 10 December 2007.
External links
Media related to Hakone-juku at Wikimedia Commons