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Imasu-juku was the fifty-ninth of the sixty-nine stations or shukuba post towns of the Nakasendo Road. It follows Sekigahara-juku and comes before Kashiwabara-juku in Shiga Pref. Hiroshige woodblock print of Imasu.
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The tall tree on a hill indicates the site of Imasu-juku's Ichirizuka or milestone. 今須宿の一里塚
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Imasu-juku's Ichirizuka or milestone. Today, Imasu is a small, sleepy cluster of houses. It has no train station, but you could walk it from Kashiwabara Station. 今須宿の一里塚
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Imasu-juku's Ichirizuka or milestone on the west end of Imasu. 今須宿の一里塚
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Site of Imasu-juku's Honjin lodge.
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Site of Imasu-juku's Honjin lodge. 今須宿本陣跡
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Site of Imasu-juku's Honjin lodge. 今須宿本陣跡
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Site of Imasu-juku's Honjin lodge. 今須宿本陣跡
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Entrance to Imasu Elementary and Junior High School. This was the site of the two Waki-Honjin lodges. 今須小中学校
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Imasu-juku's most notable shukuba-era building called the Toiyaba. It is the only Toiyaba still existing among the 16 post towns in Mino (Gifu). 今須宿問屋場
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The Toiyaba was like the town's logistics management office where they arranged lodging, horses, document deliveries, etc., for officials and travelers. Today, this building is a private residence. 今須宿問屋場
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Imasu-juku's Toiyaba. 今須宿問屋場
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Imasu-juku's Toiyaba. 今須宿問屋場
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Path to Myooji temple. 妙応寺
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Imasu Post Office
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Shinshuji temple 真宗寺
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Imasu-juku on the Nakasendo
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Hydrangea along the river in Imasu.
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Imasu-juku on the Nakasendo
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Hachiman Jinja Shrine in Imasu.
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Imasu-juku has many stone lanterns.
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Imasu-juku's most famous stone lantern is this Eitai Joyato or Eternal Lantern which lit the road at night for travelers. 永代常夜灯
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Marker indicating the west entrance of Imasu-juku.
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Hiroshige's woodblock print of Imasu-juku next to Kashiwabara-juku shows the border between Imasu and Kashiwabara. There is an inn on the Imasu side (left, called Ryogokuya Inn) and Kashiwabara side (called Kameya Inn).
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Nemonogatari-no-Sato is where the prefectural boundary between Gifu (Imasu) and Shiga is located. The inns are no longer here, but guests at both inns used to talk to each other across the border before sleeping.
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Gifu side.
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Prefectural boundary between Gifu (Imasu) and Shiga (Kashiwabara) is this narrow groove. The cross-border bedtime chatter in the old days gave this place the name Nemonogatari-no-Sato.
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Shiga side
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Nemonogatari-no-Sato (Bedtime Story Town) momument. 寝物語の里
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Basho haiku monument
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