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was the eleventh of the sixty-nine stations of the
Nakasendō The , also called the ,Richard Lane, ''Images from the Floating World'' (1978) Chartwell, Secaucus ; pg. 285 was one of the five routes of the Edo period, and one of the two that connected Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto in Japan. There were 69 ...
. It is located in the present-day city of
Takasaki is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 372,369 in 167,345 households, and a population density of 810 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Takasaki is famous as the hometown of th ...
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Gunma Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Gunma Prefecture has a population of 1,937,626 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,362 Square kilometre, km2 (2,456 Square mile, sq mi). Gunma P ...
, Japan.


History

Though Shinmachi-shuku is the eleventh post station on the Nakasendō, it was the last station to be developed.Kamisato-machi: Rekishi & Bunkasai
. Kamisato Town Hall. Accessed August 28, 2007.


Neighboring post towns

;Nakasendō :
Honjō-shuku was the tenth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto during the Edo period. It was the largest of the stations in terms of population and number of buildings. It was located in the present-day city of Honj ...
- Shinmanchi-shuku -
Kuragano-shuku was the twelfth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day city of Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. History Kuragano-shuku was an intersection between the Nakasendō and the Nikkō Reiheishi Kaidō.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shinmachi-Shuku Stations of the Nakasendō Post stations in Gunma Prefecture