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'' for the post station were originally written 舞坂 (''Maisaka'').

History

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, the next post station on the Tōkaidō. A pine colonnade from the Edo period remains today and stretches from

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to the entrance for the post station. Many visitors still come to the area, which is popular with fishermen and clam-diggers. However, none of the old streetscape remains today; only part of one old sub-''

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having become a very small landmark in the distance.

Neighboring post towns

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Hamamatsu-juku was the twenty-ninth of the fifty-three stations (''shukuba'') of the Tōkaidō. It is located in what is now Hamamatsu's Naka-ku in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. History During the Tenpō era (1830–1844), Hamamatsu-juku was located in Hamam ...

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References

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History

Neighboring post towns

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