Mitsuke-juku

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

The post station received its name, which means "with a view," because it was the first place from which Mount Fuji could be seen by travelers coming from Kyoto.

In addition to being a post station, Mitsuke-juku also flourished as the entry to Tōtōmi Province's Mitsuke Tenjin Shrine (見附天神, Mitsuke Tenjin) and as the point at which the Tōkaidō separated with a hime kaidō.

[1] When the Tōkaidō Main Line railway was established, the train station was built to the south of Mitsuke in the village of Nakaizumi.

The classic ukiyo-e print by Andō Hiroshige (Hōeidō edition) from 1831–1834 depicts travelers changing boats on a sandbank while crossing the Tenryū River by ferry.

Mitsuke-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō