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鶴川宿 鶴川宿
| Kōshū Kaidō (甲州街道) | Station 18 of 44 · Nihonbashi (Edo) → Kamisuwa (joins the Nakasendō) |
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| Present-day location | Uenohara, Yamanashi, Japan |
| Prefecture | Yamanashi (Chubu region) |
| Distance from Nihonbashi | About 69.0 km (by the historical station tables) |
| Next station | Notajirijuku — about 4.3 km on |
鶴川宿 (鶴川宿) was a post town (shukuba) on the Kōshū Kaidō, station 18 of 44 on the road from Edo. It stood in what is now Uenohara, Yamanashi, Japan, about 69.0 km from Nihonbashi, the bridge in Edo (now Tokyo) from which all five roads were measured.
On the road, travellers arrived from 上野原宿 to the east and continued, a further 4.3 km on to Notajirijuku.
Like every post town on the five roads, it maintained an official transport station (toiyaba) with horses and porters for government traffic, lodgings for officials, and inns and teahouses for ordinary travellers. Most of the Edo-period town has since been absorbed into the modern municipality; the station's name and its place in the road's sequence are what this page preserves.
Station facts from the Kōshū Kaidō station list (Japanese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikidata (CC0). No separate encyclopedia article covers this station; the summary above was prepared for this guide from those records.