Kawasaki-juku

Kawasaki-juku (川崎宿, Kawasaki-shuku) was the second of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō.

It is located in Kawasaki-ku in the present-day city of Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Kawasaki-juku was established as a post station in 1623, by the local magistrate Hasegawa Nagatsuna.

It was located near Heiken-ji, a famous Buddhist temple, so it was often used by travelers coming to pray.

The classic ukiyo-e print by Andō Hiroshige (Hōeidō edition) from 1831–1834 depicts travelers in a ferry-boat crossing the Tama River, and passengers waiting on the further bank.

Kawasaki-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in the Hōeidō edition of The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (1831–1834)