During the Edo period, the post station was greatly enlarged as it became the seat of a daikan administrator appointed by the Tokugawa shogunate to oversee one of the four major checkpoints for regulation of travelers on the Nakasendō.

It was abolished in 1868 after the Meiji restoration, but the east and west gates of the compound were reconstructed based on archaeological excavations conducted in 1975, and now form part of a historical park.

[3] Utagawa Hiroshige's ukiyo-e print of Fukushima-juku depicts the Fukushima Barrier, with two travelers in the background kneeling before an official as their documents are examined.

In the foreground, a porter with loaded panniers passes in front of an elderly samurai with a stick walking away from the barrier.

Behind, a man with his face hidden by a large green cloak and a sedge hat and two travellers approach the gate.