Warabi-shuku

Warabi-shuku (蕨宿, Warabi-shuku^?) was the second of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto during the Edo period. It was located in the present-day city of Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

Warabi was originally built up as a castle town during the Muromachi period for the Shibukawa clan. Under the Tokugawa shigunate of the Edo period, Warabi-shuku became a post town on the Nakasendō from 1612.

Per a 1843 guidebook issued by the Inspector of Highways (道中奉行, Dōchu-būgyō^?), the town stretched for about 1.1 kilometers along the highway, with a population of 2223 (1138 men, 1085 women) in 430 houses, and boasted two honjin, one waki-honjin, one tonya and 23 hatago. Until the late Edo period, Warabi-shuku was infamous for its aggressive meshimori onna and numerous chaya.

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