Yoshiwara-juku

The Yoshiwara-juku Festival is held each year in October and November in Fuji, showing visitors the area's history.

[1] The Yoshiwara-juku was originally located near the present-day Yoshiwara Station, on the modern Tōkaidō Main Line railway, but after a very destructive tsunami in 1639, was rebuilt further inland, on what is now the Yodahara section of present-day Fuji.

In 1680, the area was again devastated by a large tsunami, and the post town was again relocated and moved to its current place.

During the Edo period, there was a long colonnade of pine trees lining the route along this point.

This is depicted in the classic ukiyo-e print by Andō Hiroshige (Hōeidō edition) from 1831–1834 which shows a groom leading a horse with women travelers down a narrow path lined with pine trees with Mount Fuji to the left.