Ishibe-juku
[file:Dengaku-tyaya01s3200.jpg|right|thumb|260px|Reconstructed building based on Hiroshige's print]
Ishibe-juku was the fifty-first of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. It was located in the present-day city of Konan, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
History
Ishibe-juku was originally formed in 1571, when Oda Nobunaga formed the town of Ishibe by joining the five nearby hamlets. In 1597, Toyotomi Hideyoshi further developed the post station to be used for the shipment of goods by travelers on their way to Zenkō-ji In Shinano Province. In the early Edo period, the system of post stations on the Tōkaidō was formalized by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1601, Ishibe-juku became an official post station. It was on the sankin-kōtai route by many western daimyō to-and-from the Shogun's court in Edo. Ishibe-juku was a popular as the first night's stop for travelers en route from Kyoto to Edo. It is 457.5 kilometers from Edo and 38 kilometers from Kyoto.Per the 1843 guidebook issued by the Inspector of Highways, the town had a population of 929 in 458 houses, including two honjin, and 32 hatago, and extended for 1.6 kilometers along the highway. It had one toiya, for the stabling of packhorses and warehousing of goods, and one kōsatsu for the display of official notifications.
In 1864, Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi, stayed at Ishibe-juku, though his visit was preceded in 1863 by Tokugawa Yoshinobu, who later became the fifteenth and final shōgun of Japan. Both stayed at the Kojima-honjin.