Tsuchiyama-juku
Tsuchiyama-juku was the forty-ninth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in the present-day city of Kōka, in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.History
Tsuchiyama-juku flourished as a post town during the Edo period because of its location at the entrance to the Suzuka Pass. However, the Suzuka Pass was also the reason for the post town's decline in the Meiji period; the pass was too steep for rail lines to be placed down, so the rail went through Terashō Station, bypassing the formerly flourishing town. The remains of the honjin can still be visited today.;Tōkaidō
