was the nineteenth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in what is now part of the Aoi-ku area of Shizuoka,

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History

The post station of Fuchū-juku was also a castle town for

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in the former

Suruga Province was an Provinces of Japan, old province in the area that is today the central part of Shizuoka Prefecture. Suruga bordered on Izu Province, Izu, Kai Province, Kai, Sagami Province, Sagami, Shinano Province, Shinano, and Tōtōmi Province, Tōtōm ...

.Fuchū-juku to Mariko-juku
Tōkaidō Hitoritabi. Accessed December 7, 2007. Sunpu castle tatsumiyagura

The classic

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print by

Andō Hiroshige or , 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 landscape series '' The Fifty-three Stations ...

(Hōeidō edition) from 1831 to 1834 depicts travellers crossing the

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to the west of the post station. A woman is being carried in a '' kago'', while other people are fording the stream on foot.

Neighboring post towns

;Tōkaidō :

Ejiri-juku was the eighteenth of the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō, fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō (road), Tōkaidō. It is one of four former shukuba, post stations located in what is now part of the Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Shimizu-ku area of Shizuo ...

- Fuchū-juku -

Mariko-juku was the twentieth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in what is now part of Suruga Ward in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It can also be written as 丸子宿 (''Mariko-juku''). History Mariko-juku was one ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fuchu-juku Stations of the Tōkaidō Stations of the Tōkaidō in Shizuoka Prefecture

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Neighboring post towns

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