was the thirty-first of the sixty-nine stations of the

Nakasendō The , also called the ,Richard Lane, ''Images from the Floating World'' (1978) Chartwell, Secaucus ; pg. 285 was one of the five routes of the Edo period, and one of the two that connected Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto in Japan. There were 69 ...

. It is located in the central part of the present-day city of Shiojiri,

Nagano Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,052,493 () and has a geographic area of . Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture to the north, Gunma Prefecture to the n ...

, Japan.

History

The area was named "Seba," which means "washing a horse," when a retainer of

Minamoto no Yoshinaka , , or Lord Kiso was a general from the late Heian period of Japanese history. A member of the Minamoto clan, Minamoto no Yoritomo was his cousin and rival during the Genpei War between the Minamoto and the Taira clans. Yoshinaka was born in Musas ...

washed his master's horse in the waters here. Seba-juku was originally established in 1614, along with Shiojiri-juku and

Motoyama-juku was the thirty-second of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the central part of the present-day city of Shiojiri, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. History Motoyama became a post town in 1614, when the Nakasendō's route was ...

, in order to accommodate the change in the Nakasendō's route.

Neighboring post towns

;Nakasendō : Shiojiri-juku - Seba-juku -

{{DEFAULTSORT:Seba-Juku Stations of the Nakasendō Stations of the Nakasendo in Nagano Prefecture