Fujieda-juku

It is located in what is now part of the city of Fujieda, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

[1] Additionally, it was a post station along the Unuma Kaidō, which ran to the salt-producing area of Sagara.

The classic ukiyo-e print by Andō Hiroshige (Hōeidō edition) from 1831–1834 depicts the actual business of the shukuba as a relay station to change horses and coolies to permit the rapid transmission of high priority messages and goods between Edo and Kyoto.

At the beginning of the Meiji period, when the Tōkaidō Main Line railway was being built, residents were worried about the smoke and ash from the newly developed steam locomotives would ruin their green tea crop, and decided to block construction of the line.

However, after Fujieda became a city, its area expanded greatly and has become an industrial community.