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下初狩宿 下初狩宿
| Kōshū Kaidō (甲州街道) | Station 28 of 44 · Nihonbashi (Edo) → Kamisuwa (joins the Nakasendō) |
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| Present-day location | Ōtsuki, Yamanashi, Japan |
| Prefecture | Yamanashi (Chubu region) |
| Distance from Nihonbashi | About 91.3 km (by the historical station tables) |
| Next station | 中初狩宿 — about 2.6 km on |
下初狩宿 (下初狩宿) was a post town (shukuba) on the Kōshū Kaidō, station 28 of 44 on the road from Edo. It stood in what is now Ōtsuki, Yamanashi, Japan, about 91.3 km from Nihonbashi, the bridge in Edo (now Tokyo) from which all five roads were measured.
On the road, travellers arrived from 上花咲宿 to the east and continued, a further 2.6 km on to 中初狩宿.
From the road records: A combined station (gōshuku) of Shimo-Hatsukari and Naka-Hatsukari, known as Hatsukari-shuku.
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.