was the thirty-seventh of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in the present-day city of Okazaki, in

Aichi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefectur ...

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. It was approximately from Akasaka-juku, the preceding post station.Tokaido 53: Fujikawa-juku (Okazaki)
. Tōkaidō no Tabi. Accessed March 6, 2008. Another accepted reading for this post town is "Fujikawa-juku." At its peak, Fujikawa-juku was home to 302 buildings, including one '' honjin'', one sub-''honjin'' and 36 '' hatago''. Its total population was approximately 1,200 people. The classic

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Andō Hiroshige Utagawa Hiroshige (, also ; ja, 歌川広重 ), born Andō Tokutarō (; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ''ukiyo-e'' artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format l ...

(Hōeidō edition) from 1831 to 1834 depicts a ''

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'' entering the post station, which would have been a common occurrence. Three commoners are shown as kneeling as the lord's retinue passes. The Okazaki city government has been working actively on preserving this old post town as a tourist destination. In addition to creating the Fujikawa-shuku Archives Museum within the preserved waki-'' honjin'', detailing the history of the post town, the city has preserved a number of old structures such old street lights, and traditional houses with lattice windows. A line of old pine trees extending for approximately a kilometer marks the location of the Tōkaidō road.

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Okazaki-shuku was the thirty-eighth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in the present-day city of Okazaki, in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. History Okazaki-shuku was a part of the flourishing castle town surrounding Okazaki Castle, t ...

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