Niekawa-juku

Niekawa-juku

Niekawa-juku

Station of Nakasendō in Japan

Niekawa-juku (贄川宿, Niekawa-juku) was the thirty-third of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day city of Shiojiri, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

Hiroshige's print of Niekawa-juku, part of the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō

History

Niekawa was originally written as 熱川 (niekawa, "warm river") because there were onsen in the area, which made the river warm. However, the kanji were eventually changed to the ones used today.

Originally built in the Tenbun period (1532-1555), it was the first of 11 resting spots along the Kisoji (木曽路),[1] which stretched to modern-day Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture. It also marked the dividing point between the lands of Owari Han and Matsumoto han.[1] It became part of the Nakasendō during the Edo period.

Neighboring post towns

Nakasendō
Motoyama-juku - Niekawa-juku - Narai-juku
Kisoji
Niekawa-juku (starting location) - Narai-juku

References

  1. [1]
    Kisoji Shukuba-machi Series: Niekawa-juku Archived 2007-05-24 at the Wayback Machine. Higashi Nihon Denshin Denwa. Accessed July 24, 2007.

36°0′39.8″N 137°51′34.1″E
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Niekawa-juku, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.