Yabuhara-juku

Yabuhara-juku (藪原宿, Yabuhara-juku) was the thirty-fifth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō, as well as the third of eleven stations on the Kisoji.

It is located in the present-day village of Kiso, in the Kiso District of Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

Yabuhara-juku is located shortly before the Torii Pass, which was the most difficult part of the Kisoji.

[1] Presently, it is known for its omiyage, which are made out of the birch trees that grow nearby.

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Keisai Eisen 's print of Yabuhara-juku, part of the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō