was the twenty-third 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 6 ...

. It is located in the present-day city of

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, in

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History

Shionada-shuku is located on the eastern bank of the

Shinano River The , known as the in its upper reaches, is the longest and widest river in Japan and the third largest by basin area (behind the Tone River and Ishikari River). It is located in northeastern Honshu, rising in the Japanese Alps and flowing g ...

, just across from

Yawata-shuku was the twenty-fourth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day city of Saku, in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. History Yawata-shuku is located on the west bank of the Shinano River, just across from Shionada-shuk ...

. Both Shionada-shuku and Yawata-shuku were first developed under the orders of

Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, which ruled Japan from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fellow ...

after the

Battle of Sekigahara The Battle of Sekigahara (Shinjitai: ; Kyūjitai: , Hepburn romanization: ''Sekigahara no Tatakai'') was a decisive battle on October 21, 1600 (Keichō 5, 15th day of the 9th month) in what is now Gifu prefecture, Japan, at the end of ...

, and then were further developed after the development of the Tōkaidō and the Nakasendō.Saku-shi Homepage
. City of Saku. Accessed August 10, 2007. At its peak, the post town had about 10 minor inns, and in 1844, it was recorded to have two ''

honjin The ''honjin'' at Inaba Kaidō's Ōhara-shuku.">Ōhara-shuku.html" ;"title="Inaba Kaidō's Ōhara-shuku">Inaba Kaidō's Ōhara-shuku. is the Japanese word for an inn for government officials, generally located in post stations (''shukuba'') dur ...

'' and one sub-''honjin''. There was a bridge which connected Shionada and Yawata, but it was washed away by a flood and never rebuilt. Instead, the river was crossed with ferry service or by fording.

Neighboring post towns

;Nakasendō :

Iwamurada-shuku was the twenty-second of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day city of Saku, in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. History Originally, Iwamurada-shuku was a castle town for the Iwamurada ''Han'' and, as a post town, i ...

- Shionada-shuku -

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shionada-Shuku Stations of the Nakasendō Stations of the Nakasendo in Nagano Prefecture