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白河宿 白河宿
| Ōshū Kaidō (奥州街道) | Station 27 of 27 · Nihonbashi (Edo) → Shirakawa |
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| Present-day location | Shirakawa, Fukushima, Japan |
| Prefecture | Fukushima (Tohoku region) |
| Next station | Final station on this road |
白河宿 (白河宿) was a post town (shukuba) on the Ōshū Kaidō, station 27 of 27 on the road from Edo. It stood in what is now Shirakawa, Fukushima, Japan.
On the road, travellers arrived from 白坂宿 to the east.
From the road records: Below Shirakawa Komine Castle. The Shirakawa Kaidō branches off here.
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.
Station facts from the Ōshū 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.