Shinmachi-shuku

Hiroshige's print of Shinmachi-shuku, part of The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō series

Shinmachi-shuku (新町宿, Shinmachi-shuku) was the eleventh of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day city of Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan.

History

Though Shinmachi-shuku is the eleventh post station on the Nakasendō, it was actually the last station to be developed.^[1]

↑ Kamisato-machi: Rekishi & Bunkasai. Kamisato Town Hall. Accessed August 28, 2007.

Stations of the Nakasendō

Musashi	Nihonbashi Itabashi Warabi Urawa Ōmiya Ageo Okegawa Kōnosu Fukiage (ai no shuku) Kumagai Fukaya Honjō

Kōzuke	Shinmachi Kuragano (intersects with Nikkō Reiheishi Kaidō) Takasaki Itahana Annaka Matsuida Sakamoto

Shinano	Karuisawa Kutsukake Oiwake Otai Iwamurada Shionada Yawata Mochizuki Motai (ai no shuku) Ashida Nagakubo Wada Shimosuwa (intersects with Kōshū Kaidō) Shiojiri (intersects with Shio no Michi) Seba Motoyama Niekawa Narai Yabuhara Miyanokoshi Fukushima Agematsu Suhara Nojiri Midono Tsumago

Mino	Magome Ochiai Nakatsugawa Ōi Ōkute Hosokute Mitake Fushimi Ōta Unuma Shinkanō (ai no shuku) Kanō Gōdo Mieji Akasaka Tarui Sekigahara Imasu

Ōmi	Kashiwabara Samegai Banba Toriimoto Takamiya Echigawa Musa Moriyama (merges with Tōkaidō to Sanjō Ōhashi) Kusatsu Ōtsu

Yamashiro	Sanjō Ōhashi

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