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[[File:Hiroshige - Tokaido53 Seki.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"Seki" from the "53 Stations of the Tokaido" ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' woodblock print series by Hiroshige]]In the Edo period, the Tôkaidô was more formally organized, with fifty-three official [[post-stations]] (''shukuba''), and a series of checkpoints (''[[sekisho]]''). The fifty-three stations were formally established in [[1601]]/1, and the [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa]] renovation, or re-establishment, of the highway as a whole is generally said to have been completed by [[1624]].<ref>''Hosokawa-ke monjo: ezu, chizu, sashizu hen II'' 細川家文書：絵図・地図・指図編 II, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (2013), 197.</ref>

[[File:Hiroshige - Tokaido53 Seki.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"Seki" from the "53 Stations of the Tokaido" ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' woodblock print series by Hiroshige]]In the Edo period, the Tôkaidô was more formally organized, with fifty-three official [[post-stations]] (''shukuba''), and a series of checkpoints (''[[sekisho]]''). The fifty-three stations were formally established in [[1601]]/1, and the [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa]] renovation, or re-establishment, of the highway as a whole is generally said to have been completed by [[1624]].<ref>''Hosokawa-ke monjo: ezu, chizu, sashizu hen II'' 細川家文書：絵図・地図・指図編 II, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (2013), 197.</ref>

Inns, warehouses, ''[[hikyaku]]'' messenger services, post-horses, brothels, and the like quickly developed along the road. At the peak, there were some 111 ''[[honjin]]'' and 73 ''waki-honjin'' (special lodgings for elite visitors such as ''daimyô'', shogunal officials, and foreign embassies) along the road, as well as hundreds if not a few thousand ''[[hatagoya]]'' (inns).<ref>Miyamoto Tsuneichi 宮本常一, ''Nihon no shuku'' 日本の宿, Tokyo: Shakai shisôsha (1965), 167. Most post-stations had 50 to 200 inns each. Carey, 39.</ref> Though previously conceived of as beginning in Kyoto and ending somewhere in the Musashino area, the Edo period Tôkaidô was thought of as running in the opposite direction; it officially began at [[Nihonbashi]], in Edo, and ended at Sanjô Ôhashi (Sanjô Bridge) in Kyoto, with an extension running to Osaka.

Inns, warehouses, ''[[hikyaku]]'' messenger services, post-horses, brothels, and the like quickly developed along the road. At the peak, there were some 111 ''[[honjin]]'' and 73 ''waki-honjin'' (special lodgings for elite visitors such as ''daimyô'', shogunal officials, and foreign embassies) along the road, as well as hundreds if not a few thousand ''[[hatagoya]]'' (inns).<ref>Miyamoto Tsuneichi 宮本常一, ''Nihon no shuku'' 日本の宿, Tokyo: Shakai shisôsha (1965), 167. Most post-stations had 50 to 200 inns each. Carey, 39.</ref> While some post-stations had as many as four or six ''honjin'', the overall average number of ''honjin'' per post-station was 2.1; post-stations had roughly 1.3 ''waki-honjin'' on average.<ref>Gallery labels, Futagawa-juku honjin shiryôkan.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/31363644767/sizes/l/].</ref> Though previously conceived of as beginning in Kyoto and ending somewhere in the Musashino area, the Edo period Tôkaidô was thought of as running in the opposite direction; it officially began at [[Nihonbashi]], in Edo, and ended at Sanjô Ôhashi (Sanjô Bridge) in Kyoto, with an extension running to Osaka.

One of the most famous ''sekisho'' was established at [[Hakone]] in [[1619]], controlling the western entrance into the Kantô.

One of the most famous ''sekisho'' was established at [[Hakone]] in [[1619]], controlling the western entrance into the Kantô.