Kusatsu-juku

Kusatsu-juku (草津宿, Kusatsu-juku) was the fifty-second of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō as well as the sixty-eighth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the downtown area of the present-day city of Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.

Kusatsu-juku

草津宿
post station
Hiroshige's print of Kusatsu-juku, in the Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō series
General information
LocationKusatsu, Shiga (former Ōmi Province)
Japan
Coordinates35°01′03.6″N 135°57′37.7″E
Elevation127 meters
Line(s)Tōkaidō
Nakasendō
Distance457.5 km from Edo
Location
Kusatsu-juku
Location within Shiga Prefecture
Kusatsu-juku
Kusatsu-juku (Japan)
Notes
National Historic Site of Japan
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