was the sixteenth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendà Â. It is located in the present-day city of Annaka, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, at the foot of Mount Myà Âgi.
Usuinoseki Checkpoint was one of the four major checkpoints along the Nakasendà  and was between Matsuida-shuku and Sakamoto-shuku. Travelers who wanted to avoid this checkpoint could make use of a hime kaidà  that would take them over the mountains and to Oiwake-shuku, the twentieth station on the Nakasendà Â.