Fuchū-shuku
thumb|Fuchū-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in [[The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō]] was the nineteenth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in what is now part of the Aoi-ku area of Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
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thumb|Fuchū-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in [[The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō]] was the nineteenth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in what is now part of the Aoi-ku area of Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
==History== The post station of Fuchū-juku was also a castle town for Sunpu Castle in the former Suruga Province. thumb|Sunpu Castle The classic ukiyo-e print by Andō Hiroshige (Hōeidō edition) from 1831 to 1834 depicts travellers crossing the Abe River to the west of the post station. A woman is being carried in a kago, while other people are fording the stream on foot.