- Kusatsu-juku
nihongo|Kusatsu-juku|草津宿|Kusatsu-juku was the fifty-second of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō as well as the sixty-eighth of the sixty-nine stations of the
Nakasendō . It is located in the downtown area of the present-day city of Kusatsu,Shiga Prefecture ,Japan .History
Coming from
Moriyama-juku , the borders of Kusatsu-juku started at the banks of theKusatsu River to the present-day Miya-chō in Kusatsu. The famedukiyo-e artistHiroshige traveled through the post station using both the Tōkaidō and the Nakasendō in order to create woodblock prints.Kusatsu-juku had two "
honjin ", one of which was constructed in 1635 and stood until 1870. [http://www.kiis.or.jp/kansaida/kusatsu/kusatsu01.html Kusatsu-shi, Kusatsu-juku] . City of Kusatsu. Accessed July 17, 2007.] That "honjin" was later repaired and opened as a museum in 1996.Neighboring Post Towns
;Nakasendō:
Moriyama-juku - Kusatsu-juku -Ōtsu-juku ;Tōkaidō:Ishibe-juku - Kusatsu-juku -Ōtsu-juku References
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