Shimada-juku (島田宿, Shimada-juku) was the twenty-third of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō highway, which connected Edo with Kyoto in premodern...

shimada in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shimada may refer to: Shimada (surname), a Japanese surname Shimada (city), Shizuoka, Japan Shimada-juku Shimada...

control the crossing of the Ōi River. In the Edo period, Kanaya-juku and Shimada-juku developed as post towns on the Tōkaidō highway connecting Edo with...

Shimada was wounded in the leg in a shootout with local fishermen in June 1953, after which Onoda nursed him back to health. On 7 May 1954, Shimada was...

Kanaya-juku (金谷宿, Kanaya-juku) was the twenty-fourth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in what is now part of Shimada, Shizuoka...

of going to Sanjō Ōhashi, travelers would leave from Ōtsu-juku and travel towards Fushimi-juku. Because of the addition of these four post towns, the Tōkaidō...

period of long rains, visitors were sometimes forced to stay at Shimada-juku or Kanaya-juku, sometimes for several days. Following the Meiji restoration...

serves as a bedroom community to Shizuoka. Tōkaidō Okabe-juku - Fujieda-juku - Shimada-juku Carey, Patrick. Rediscovering the Old Tokaido:In the Footsteps...

even several weeks) beside the river at post stations such as Shimada-juku or Kanaya-juku. Because of this, the Ōi River was regarded as the most difficult...

like Shimada-juku, whenever the Ōi River overflowed, travel through the town became impossible. In addition to being a post station, Mitsuke-juku also...