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Akasaka-juku (Nakasendō)
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For the post station on the Tōkaidō, see Akasaka-juku (Tōkaidō).
Akasaka-juku (赤坂宿, Akasaka-juku) was the fifty-sixth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō connecting Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. It is located in former Mino Province in what is now Akasaka neighborhood of the city of Ōgaki, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.[1][2]
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Akasaka-juku 赤坂宿 | |||||
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post station | |||||
![]() Hiroshige's print of Akasaka-juku, part of the Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō series | |||||
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Location | Ōgaki, Gifu (former Mino Province) Japan | ||||
Coordinates | 35°23′25.4″N 136°34′57.2″E | ||||
Elevation | 16 meters | ||||
Line(s) | Nakasendō | ||||
Distance | 432.1 km from Edo | ||||
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