Goyu-shuku

nihongo|Goyu-shuku|御油宿|Goyu-shuku was the thirty-fifth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in Goyu-chō in the city of Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. A pine tree collonade, one of the few remnants from the Edo period post town, is a well-known tourist spot. It was approximately 10.4 km from Yoshida-juku, the preceding post station. [http://www.tokaido.co.jp/lab/wada/tour14.htm Tokaido 53: Goyu-juku (Toyohashi)] . ja icon Tōkaidō no Tabi. Accessed March 6, 2008.]

History

Goyu-shuku was established in 1601, at the behest of Tokugawa Ieyasu. At its most prosperous, there were four "honjin" in the post town, though there were never less than two at any point.

During the Meiji Restoration, the central office for the Hoi District, making it the center of the district. However, when the Tōkaidō Main Line was laid down and bypassed Goyu-shuku, it did not receive the same prosperity as Mito and Gamagōri.

Later, when Nagoya Railroad laid down what was to become the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line, they opened a station in former Goyu-shuku. The prosperity that the town had before the Meiji Restoration, however, did not return, because express trains did not stop at the station. This eventually led to the district's offices and police stations being moved to the nearby Kō-chō area of Toyokawa.

In 1959, the former town of Goyu merged with the city of Toyokawa.

Neighboring Post Towns

;Tōkaidō:Yoshida-juku - Goyu-shuku - Akasaka-juku

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