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Yawata-shuku 八幡宿
| Nakasendō (中山道) | Station 24 of 69 · Nihonbashi (Edo) → Kyoto (via Kusatsu) |
|---|---|
| Present-day location | Saku, Nagano, Japan |
| Prefecture | Nagano (Chubu region) |
| Distance from Nihonbashi | About 173 km (by the historical station tables) |
| Next station | Mochizuki-shuku — about 3.5 km on |
| Coordinates | 36.2735° N, 138.3947° E |
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
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, 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
- Nakasendō
- Shionada-shuku - Yawata-shuku - Mochizuki-shuku
Text adapted from the English Wikipedia article Yawata-shuku by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Station facts cross-checked with the road station lists (Japanese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikidata (CC0).
