Seki-juku (Tōkaidō)

Seki-juku (関宿, Seki-juku^?) was the forty-seventh of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in former Ise Province in what is now part of the city of Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, Japan.

The area around Seki-juku was always a major intersection for travel. During the time of the Jinshin War, it was known as one of the Three Ancient Seki, being called the Ise Suzuka Seki (伊勢鈴鹿の関, Ise Suzuka Barrier^?), and was an administrative checkpoint on the highway to the eastern provinces.

During the Edo period, the area flourished as a lively post town, because both the Isebetsu Kaidō (伊勢別街道^?), a highway for pilgrims to the Ise Grand Shrines and the Yamato Kaidō (大和街道^?), a highway for travelers to Yamato Province, intersected here with the Tōkaidō highway. Following the Meiji restoration, Seki-juku became the nucleus for the modern town of Seki, which became part of the city of Kameyama in 2005.

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