was the fourth 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 centrally administered Edo Five Routes, five routes of the Edo period, and one of the two that connected the ''de facto'' ...

. It is located in the Ōmiya ward and Kita ward of the present-day city of Saitama,

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History

Larger than its two neighboring post towns,

Urawa-shuku was the third of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in Urawa-ku in the present-day city of Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Its stone ruins can be found 300 meters from Tsuki Shrine (調神社 ''Tsuki Jinja'').

and Ageo-shuku, Ōmiya-shuku was recorded to have had a population of over 1,500 people with over 300 homes during the

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Saitama Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Accessed July 20, 2007. It also had the largest number (nine) of secondary ''

honjin image:Ohara-juku01s3200.jpg, The ''honjin'' at Inaba Kaidō's Ōhara-shuku. is the Japanese word for an inn for government officials, generally located in post stations (''shukuba'') during the later part of the Edo period. Evolution of ''Honjin ...

'' along the Nakasendō.

Neighboring post towns

; Nakasendō :

–Ōmiya-shuku– Ageo-shuku

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Omiya-Shuku Stations of the Nakasendō Stations of the Nakasendō in Saitama Prefecture