Chiryū-juku

Chiryū-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

Chiryū-juku (池鯉鮒宿, Chiryū-shuku^?) was the thirty-ninth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in the present-day city of Chiryū in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. During the Edo period, it was the westernmost post town in Mikawa Province. It was 330 kilometers from Nihonbashi, the start of the Tōkaidō, so it took approximately 10 days to get there.

History

Chiryū-juku was well known as a horse trading town. When Hiroshige painted the post town for The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō, he entitled the work Summer Horse Market (首夏馬市 Shuka Umaichi).

Neighboring Post Towns

Tōkaidō

Okazaki-shuku - Chiryū-juku - Narumi-juku

References

Coordinates: 35°00′29″N 137°02′28″E / 35.008°N 137.041°E / 35.008; 137.041