Hatago were Edo period lodgings for travelers at shukuba along the national highways, including the Edo Five Routes and the subroutes. In addition to a place to rest, hatago also offered meals and oth
A hatago in Japan which today functions as a museum
Seki-juku was the forty-seventh of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō connecting Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. It was located in former Ise Province in what is now the Seki neighborhood of
Hiroshige's print of Seki-juku, part of the Hōeidō edition The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō series