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Our guide
Kusatsu-juku was the 52nd of the 53 stations of the Tōkaidō and also the 68th of the 69 stations of the Nakasendō. It lies in the centre of the present-day city of Kusatsu, Shiga.
Kusatsu Station on the Biwako Line is about 600 m away in a straight line.
Written by japan-spots.com (2026-09-22) from the sources credited on this page. Distances are straight lines between map positions.
Photos
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence — see credits
- Tokaido52 Kusatsu — Utagawa Hiroshige · Public domain · source · resized
- 草津宿の追分 — Bakkai · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · resized
- Kusatsujuku Kusatsu Shiga Pref01n4592 — 663highland · CC BY 2.5 · source · resized
- Kusatsujuku-honjin Kusatsu Shiga Pref01s3s4500 — 663highland · CC BY 2.5 · source · resized
- Kisokaido68 Kusatsu — Utagawa Hiroshige · Public domain · source · resized
- Kusatsu-juku honjin — Douggers · CC BY 3.0 · source · resized
- Kusatsujuku-honjin Kusatsu Shiga Pref02s3s4500 — 663highland · CC BY 2.5 · source · resized
- Kusatsujuku-honjin Kusatsu Shiga Pref05s3s4592 — 663highland · CC BY 2.5 · source · resized
- Kusatsujuku-honjin Kusatsu Shiga Pref06s3s4592 — 663highland · CC BY 2.5 · source · resized
What this place is
Kusatsu-juku (草津宿, Kusatsu-juku) was the fifty-second of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō as well as the sixty-eighth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the downtown area of the present-day city of Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
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Nearby station
Nearby station: Kusatsu (Biwako Line), about 600 m from the spot in a straight line.
Worked out on 2026-09-14 from this place’s map position, using HeartRails Express station data and station names from Wikidata. The distance is a straight line, not a walking route, and says nothing about buses, transfers or timetables — plan the trip on Google Maps.
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