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*''Japanese'': 四日市 ''(Yokkaichi)''
Yokkaichi is a city in [[Mie prefecture]], and in the [[Edo period]] was the 43rd of the 53 stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] highway.
In the 1690s, [[Englebert Kaempfer]] recorded that he counted some one thousand homes in Yokkaichi, making it ten times as large as some smaller post-towns (such as [[Sakashita-juku]]), though of course still far smaller than some others (such as the [[castletowns]] of [[Nagoya]] and [[Odawara]]).<ref>Patrick Carey, "The Tokaido: Changing Perceptions of Japanese and Foreign Travellers, 1691-1990," ''Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan'', 4th series, no. 16 (2001), 41.</ref>
Yokkaichi was the next station on the highway after [[Kuwana]]. From Yokkaichi, the road went through the Suzuka Pass to reach the next station to the west, [[Ishiyakushi-juku]].
<center>
{| border="3" align="center"
|- align="center"
|width="32%"|Preceded by:<br>'''[[Kuwana]]'''
|width="35%"|'''Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]'''
|width="32%"|Succeeded by:<br>'''[[Ishiyakushi-juku]]'''
|}
</center>
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Cities and Towns]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
Yokkaichi is a city in [[Mie prefecture]], and in the [[Edo period]] was the 43rd of the 53 stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] highway.
In the 1690s, [[Englebert Kaempfer]] recorded that he counted some one thousand homes in Yokkaichi, making it ten times as large as some smaller post-towns (such as [[Sakashita-juku]]), though of course still far smaller than some others (such as the [[castletowns]] of [[Nagoya]] and [[Odawara]]).<ref>Patrick Carey, "The Tokaido: Changing Perceptions of Japanese and Foreign Travellers, 1691-1990," ''Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan'', 4th series, no. 16 (2001), 41.</ref>
Yokkaichi was the next station on the highway after [[Kuwana]]. From Yokkaichi, the road went through the Suzuka Pass to reach the next station to the west, [[Ishiyakushi-juku]].
<center>
{| border="3" align="center"
|- align="center"
|width="32%"|Preceded by:<br>'''[[Kuwana]]'''
|width="35%"|'''Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]'''
|width="32%"|Succeeded by:<br>'''[[Ishiyakushi-juku]]'''
|}
</center>
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Cities and Towns]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]