Magome-juku 馬籠宿 | |||||
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post station | |||||
General information | |||||
Location | Nakatsugawa, Gifu (former Mino Province) Japan | ||||
Coordinates | 35°31′36.39″N 137°34′05.04″E / 35.5267750°N 137.5680667°E | ||||
Elevation | 611 meters | ||||
Line(s) | Nakasendō | ||||
Distance | 326.7 km from Edo | ||||
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Magome-juku (馬籠宿, Magome-juku) was the forty-third 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 part of the city of Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It was also the last of eleven stations along the Kisoji, which was the precursor to a part of the Nakasendō, running through the Kiso Valley. [1]