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Kōshū Kaidō · Station 33 of 44

駒飼宿 駒飼宿

Kōshū, Yamanashi, JapanAbout 110 km from Nihonbashi
Kōshū Kaidō (甲州街道)Station 33 of 44 · Nihonbashi (Edo) → Kamisuwa (joins the Nakasendō)
Present-day locationKōshū, Yamanashi, Japan
PrefectureYamanashi (Chubu region)
Distance from NihonbashiAbout 110 km (by the historical station tables)
Next station鶴瀬宿 — about 2.0 km on

駒飼宿 (駒飼宿) was a post town (shukuba) on the Kōshū Kaidō, station 33 of 44 on the road from Edo. It stood in what is now Kōshū, Yamanashi, Japan, about 110 km from Nihonbashi, the bridge in Edo (now Tokyo) from which all five roads were measured.

On the road, travellers arrived from 黒野田宿 to the east and continued, a further 2.0 km on to 鶴瀬宿.

Like every post town on the five roads, it maintained an official transport station (toiyaba) with horses and porters for government traffic, lodgings for officials, and inns and teahouses for ordinary travellers. Most of the Edo-period town has since been absorbed into the modern municipality; the station's name and its place in the road's sequence are what this page preserves.

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Station facts from the Kōshū Kaidō station list (Japanese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Wikidata (CC0). No separate encyclopedia article covers this station; the summary above was prepared for this guide from those records.

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