Mariko-juku
was the twentieth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in what is now part of Suruga Ward in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It can also be written as 丸子宿 (''Mariko-juku''). History Mariko-juku was one of the smallest post stations on the Tōkaidō.Mariko-juku
. www.uchiyama.info. Accessed December 19, 2007. Old row-houses from the can be found between Mariko-juku and Okabe-juku, its neighboring post station, in Utsuinotani. This post town also had strong ties to the

Shizuoka, Shizuoka
is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and the prefecture's second-largest city in both population and area. It has been populated since prehistoric times. the city had an estimated population of 690,881 in 106,087 households, and a population density of . Overview The city's name is made up of two ''kanji'', 静 ''shizu'', meaning "still" or "calm"; and 岡 ''oka'', meaning "hill(s)". In 1869, Shizuoka Domain was first created out of the older Sunpu Domain, and that name was retained when the city was incorporated in 1885. In 2003, Shizuoka absorbed neighboring Shimizu City (now Shimizu Ward) to create the new and expanded city of Shizuoka, briefly becoming the largest city by land area in Japan. In 2005, it became one of Japan's " designated cities". Cityscapes File:Sunpu-castle tatsumi-yagura.JPG, Sunpu Castle（2014） File:Shizuoka Station 201016a.jpg, CBD of Shizuoka City（2020） File:Higashi-Shizuoka Panorama 05.jpg, Skyline of Shizuoka City（2021� ...
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