Tsuchiyama-juku

nihongo|Tsuchiyama-juku|土山宿|Tsuchiyama-juku was the forty-ninth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in the present-day city of Kōka, in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.

History

Tsuchiyama-juku flourished as a post town during the Edo period because of its location at the entrance to the Suzuka Pass (鈴鹿峠 "Suzuka Tōge"). However, the Suzuka Pass was also the reason for the post town's decline in the Meiji period; the pass was too steep for rail lines to be placed down, so the rail went through Terashō Station (also in present-day Kōka), bypassing the formerly flourishing town. The remains of the "honjin" can still be visited today. [http://www.biwako-visitors.jp/search/spot.php?id=1697 Shiga Prefectural Tourism Information: Tsuchiyama-juku "Honjin"] . ja icon Biwako Visitors Bureau. Accessed March 14, 2008.]

Neighboring Post Towns

;Tōkaidō:Sakashita-juku - Tsuchiyama-juku - Minakuchi-juku

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