Fukushima-juku

Fukushima-juku

福島宿
Utagawa Hiroshige's print of Fukushima-juku, part of the Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō series
General information
LocationKiso-machi, Kiso-gun, Nagano-ken
Japan
Coordinates35°51′03″N 137°42′09″E / 35.85083°N 137.70250°E / 35.85083; 137.70250
Line(s)Nakasendō, Kisoji
Distance70 ri from Edo
Location
Fukushima-juku
Location within Nagano Prefecture
Fukushima-juku
Fukushima-juku (Japan)
Notes

Fukushima-juku (福島宿, Fukushima-juku) was the thirty-seventh of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto during the Edo period. It was located in the present-day city of Kiso, in the Kiso District of Nagano Prefecture, Japan. It was also numbered as the fifth of eleven stations on the Kisoji highway.