Maisaka Waki-honjin

photo by Yobito KAYANUMA · CC BY-SA 3.0

photo by ガウス · CC BY-SA 3.0 / GFDL 1.2+

An 1838 inn for daimyō: the only waki-honjin left on the old Tōkaidō.

Built in 1838 as the official reserve inn of the Maisaka post station, for the daimyō, the feudal lords travelling on the Tōkaidō, the Myōgaya waki-honjin is the only one of its kind left along the whole of the old road. You can visit it free of charge in about twenty minutes.

Along the Tōkaidō, the road that linked Edo to Kyoto in the Edo period, every post station had a honjin (the inn reserved for travelling daimyō) and a reserve waki-honjin for when the honjin was already occupied. Maisaka's, the Myōgaya, built in 1838, is the only waki-honjin to have survived along the entire historic route of the Tōkaidō. The municipality of Hamamatsu designated it a tangible cultural property on 17 May 1997.

ℹ️ Open 9:00–16:00, free; closed on Mondays (or the following day if it is a public holiday) and from 29/12 to 3/1. About 20 minutes for a visit. The most convenient station is Bentenjima, 858 metres away (about 11 minutes on foot); Maisaka Station is further, 1,668 metres away, over 20 minutes on foot.

🚉 Bentenjima · 10 min walk

Sources: city.hamamatsu.shizuoka.jp · kaidou.nagoya

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