Okabe-juku

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

Between Okabe-juku and the preceding post station of Mariko-juku runs Route 1, which was part of the ancient trade route.

[1] The classic ukiyo-e print by Andō Hiroshige (Hōeidō edition) from 1831–1834 depicts a mountain stream between steep green banks, with the roadway a narrow path walled in on one side by a stone wall.

Okabe-juku's hatago, Kashiba-ya, prospered during the Edo period; however, it was destroyed by fire in 1834.

After it was rebuilt in 1836, it was eventually named nationally designated Important Cultural Property.

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