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Sekijuku

Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, Japan
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About Sekijuku

Seki-juku turned into the forty-seventh of the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido. It is placed in former Ise Province in what is now part of the city of Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, Japan. He place round Seki-juku changed into usually a first-rate intersection for travel. During the time of the Jinshin War, it was called one of the Three Ancient Seki, being known as the Ise Suzuka Seki Ise Suzuka Barrier, and changed into an administrative checkpoint at the toll road to the eastern provinces.

During the Edo duration, the place flourished as a active submit town, because each the Isebetsu Kaido a motorway for pilgrims to the Ise Grand Shrines and the Yamato Kaido a dual carriageway for tourists to Yamato Province, intersected here with the Tukaidu motorway. Following the Meiji Restoration, Seki-juku have become the nucleus for the present day town of Seki, which have become part of the town of Kameyama in 2005. The traditional ukiyo-e print by way of Ando Hiroshige Hoeido version from 1831–1834 depicts the retinue of a daimyu on sankin-kutai preparing to leave an higher-class motel for the duration of the early hours of the morning.

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