Kuwana-juku (桑名宿, Kuwana-juku) was the forty-second of the fifty-three stations (shukuba) of the Tōkaidō connecting Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan...

Tokugawa shogunate, Kuwana was the castle town of Kuwana Domain, with a kokudaka of 150,000 koku. It was also the location of Kuwana-juku, as the forty-second...

Kuwana Castle (桑名城, Kuwana-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Kuwana, northern Mie Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Kuwana Castle was...

first-class rivers.[citation needed] The former Tōkaidō post station of Kuwana-juku was located on the western banks of this river during the Edo period...

recognized the strategic value of the location as both a seaport, and also as Kuwana-juku, a post station on the vital Tōkaidō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto...

and the Yōrō Railway portion by 2,228 passengers daily. Kuwana City Office Kuwana-juku Kuwana Castle ruins Japan National Route 1 List of railway stations...

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...

also possible for travelers to take a ferry from here to Miya-juku, thus bypassing Kuwana-juku. Per the 1843 "東海道宿村大概帳" (Tōkaidō Shukuson Taigaichō) guidebook...

Narumi-juku - Miya-juku - Kuwana-juku Saya Kaidō Miya-juku (starting location) - Iwazuka-juku Minoji Miya-juku (starting location) - Nagoya-juku Carey...

landing of the Shichiri no watashi [ja] ferry crossing, between Kuwana-juku and Miya-juku, celebrated by Hiroshige in The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō...