It was located in former Ise Province in what is now the Seki neighborhood of the city of Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, Japan.

In the early Edo period, the system of post stations on the Tōkaidō was formalized by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1601, Seki-juku became an official post station It was on the sankin-kōtai route by many western daimyō to-and-from the Shogun's court in Edo.

[2] Per the 1843 "東海道宿村大概帳" (Tōkaidō Shukuson Taigaichō) guidebook issued by the Inspector of Highways (道中奉行, Dōchu-būgyō), the town had 632 houses, including two honjin, two wakihonjin, and 42 hatago.

Following the Meiji Restoration, Seki-juku became the nucleus for the modern town of Seki, which became part of the city of Kameyama in 2005.

The print depicts the early morning preparations for departure of a daimyō procession on sankin-kōtai from one of the honjin.