Mitsuke-juku
Sign in to savethumb|Mitsuke-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in [[The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō]] was the twenty-eighth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in what is now the central part of the city of Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The post station received its name, which means "with a view," because it was the first place from which Mount Fuji could be seen by travelers coming from Kyoto.
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- Japan
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- Iwata
- Followed by
- Hamamatsu-juku
- Follows
- Fukuroi-juku
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- Koreyori Mitsuke-juku.jpg
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thumb|Mitsuke-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in [[The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō]] was the twenty-eighth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in what is now the central part of the city of Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The post station received its name, which means "with a view," because it was the first place from which Mount Fuji could be seen by travelers coming from Kyoto.
==History== Mitsuke-juku is located on the left bank of the Tenryū River, but boats generally used the nearby Ōi River, as it had a deeper channel and fewer difficult places to navigate. However, much like Shimada-juku, whenever the Ōi River overflowed, travel through the town became impossible.
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