Kurita

Kurita lies in southern Ōmi, near the eastern shore of Lake Biwa. Its post town of Kusatsu stood at the junction of two great highways: the Tōkaidō and the Nakasendō, both leading towards Kyoto. Travellers of rank could rest at the town's honjin, lodgings reserved for daimyō, courtiers and shogunal officials. A road marker erected by couriers in 1816 pointed one way towards Ise and the other towards Mino.