Yoshida-juku

It is located in the center of what is now the city of Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

Yoshida-juku was established in 1601 as a post station within the castle town[1] surrounding Yoshida Castle, an important feudal domain and port town in Mikawa Province.

One the larger post stations on the Tōkaidō, it stretched for 2.6 kilometers along the highway, and in a census taken in 1802, there were two honjin, one  waki-honjin and 65 hatago to serve the travelers.

The town as a whole consisted of approximately 1,000 buildings and had a population of 5,000 to 7,000 people.

As with neighboring Goyu-shuku and Fukagawa-juku, it had a reputation for its meshimori onna.

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