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Iwamurada-shuku 岩村田宿

Saku, Nagano, JapanAbout 165 km from Nihonbashi
Iwamurada-shuku
Iwamurada-shuku (岩村田宿) — woodblock printWoodblock print: Keisai Eisen — from The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
Nakasendō (中山道)Station 22 of 69 · Nihonbashi (Edo) → Kyoto (via Kusatsu)
Present-day locationSaku, Nagano, Japan
PrefectureNagano (Chubu region)
Distance from NihonbashiAbout 165 km (by the historical station tables)
Next stationShionada-shuku — about 5.1 km on
Coordinates36.2726° N, 138.4783° E

Iwamurada-shuku (岩村田宿, Iwamurada-shuku) was the twenty-second of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day city of Saku, in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

History

Originally, Iwamurada-shuku was a castle town for the Iwamurada Han and, as a post town, it never developed a proper honjin, though it did have some smaller inns.

Neighboring Post Towns

Nakasendō
Otai-shuku - Iwamurada-shuku - Shionada-shuku
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Text adapted from the English Wikipedia article Iwamurada-shuku by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Station facts cross-checked with the road station lists (Japanese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikidata (CC0).

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