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Kusatsu-juku Honjin

Shiga · Kusatsu · Architecture

Japanese name: 草津宿本陣

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Kusatsu-juku Honjin
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WHAT TO DOKusatsu-juku Honjin

The official inn where the two great highways divide, surviving intact - with the register of who slept there and when.

WHEREShiga

Konan · Kusatsu

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The official inn where the two great highways divide, surviving intact - with the register of who slept there and when.

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Kusatsu-juku (草津宿, Kusatsu-juku) was the fifty-second of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō as well as the sixty-eighth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the downtown area of the present-day city of Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.

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Founded / opened:1635 Highlights / collection:Reception room where daimyo stayed, Records of the guest ledger Genre:Architecture

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