| 27th Station: Fukuroi |
| History |
The 27th station, Fukuroi is in the middle of the 53 stations of Tokaido. You can still see pine trees around Fukuroi. There are also famous temples (kasuisai, yuzan-ji and sonei-ji) in Fukuroi. Regarding Kasuisai temple, it literally means "may sleep". there is a story related to Tokugawa Ieyasu. 11th chief priest of the temple once helped Tokugawa Ieyasu (establisher of the Tokugawa shogunate) who was a hostage of Imagawa at that time. Ieyasu invited the priest to his Hamamatsu castle to express his appreciation. However, the prist began sleeping while talking with Ieyasu. Looking at the priest sleeping peacefully and innocently, Ieyasu was pleased, and said "nemuru yoshi" (you may sleep). After the incident, the temple was renamed to "kasuisai (may sleep)".
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| Kakegawa |
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| Mitsuke |
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| Tokaido route |