Kuwana-juku was the forty-second of the fifty-three stations (shukuba) of the Tōkaidō connecting Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. It was located in former Ise Province in what is now part of the city of Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, Japan.
Hiroshige's print of Kuwana-juku, part of the Hōeidō edition The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō series
Shichiri no watashi torii
53 Stations of the Tōkaidō
The 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō are the rest areas along the Tōkaidō, which was a coastal route that ran from Nihonbashi in Edo to Sanjō Ōhashi in Kyoto. There were originally 53 government post stations along the Tōkaidō, where travelers had to present traveling permits at each station if wanting to cross.
The Tōkaidō in 1865.
Nihonbashi's highway distance marker, from which modern highway distances are measured
Odawara-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō.
The countryside around Yui-shuku in the 1830s